Daughters of the House Author:Michele Roberts Secrets and lies linger in the very walls of the solid, old Normandy house in which Theresa and Leonie, French and English counins of the same age, grow up after the war. Intrigued by parents' and servants' guilty silences and the broken shrine they find buried in the woods, the girls weave their own elaborate fantasies, unwittingly revealing t... more »he village secret and a deep shame that will come to haunt them in their adult lives.« less