House of the white elephant : a novel
In the spring of 1953, on the day that the ice breaks up on the Saskatchewan river system, an eccentric music teacher has a visitation from her dead father. She is inspired to write the story of his mother, confined to an asylum run by the East India Company, of his three wives, all named Elizabeth - and of the fate of his first Elizabeth who disappeared during the 1867 Indian Mutiny. To know a man, she writes in her red ledger, one must look a...
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