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Natural elements
a novel
By Mason, Richard O.
- ISBN
- 978-0-30726-746-7
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2009
Eighty-year-old Joan McAllister faces the difficulty of moving to a London retirement home run by an officious and insensitive nurse manager. To make that dire prospect sweeter, her daughter, Eloise, takes Joan on a trip to South Africa, where Joan's Dutch family lived through the Boer War. Joan makes delightful ancestral discoveries in the town's archives, but Eloise's discovery-that the metal in which she invested millions of her hedge...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
