Honour Thy Father
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‘I do,’ she says. ‘Oh I do!’
‘Well I’m sure he loved you, truly. The dark one with the noble face. I’m sure he would have married you. I bet he dreams of you still.’
She closes her eyes with the pleasure of this. Ellenanesther’s breath is the rustle of leaves. I do feel strange. I think it is called content.
About the Author
Lesley Glaister (b. 1956) is a British novelist, playwright, and teacher of writing, currently working at the University of St Andrews. Sheis a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Society of Authors. Her first novel, Honour Thy Father, was published in 1990 and received both a Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award. Glaister became known for her darkly humorous works and has been dubbed the Queen of Domestic Gothic. Glaister was named Yorkshire Author of the Year in 1998 for her novel Easy Peasy, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award in 1998. Now You See Me was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2002. Glaister lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with her husband, author Andrew Greig.
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Copyright © 1990 by Lesley Glaister
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ISBN: 978-1-4976-9409-5
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