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Reviewed on December 1, 2018 | Fiction
DEBUT In her first novel, award-winning filmmaker Aikin builds on the passed-down family legend of a great-aunt who broke with conventions in turn-of-the-century London. At age 17, Lily Throop scandalously flees her strict family home to take work as a stagehand. She finds a patron and a tutor in the theater's leading actor, Mr. Wade. Wade's u...Log In or Sign Up to Read More