num_pages: 176
description: A Booker Prize Finalist, Daughters of the House is Michèle Roberts’s acclaimed novel of secrets and lies revealed in the aftermath of World War II. Thérèse and Léonie, French and English cousins of the same age, grow up together in Normandy. Intrigued by parents’ and servants’ guilty silences and the broken shrine they find in the woods, the girls weave their own elaborate fantasies, unwittingly revealing the village secret and a deep shame that will haunt them in their adult lives.
language: English
title: Daughters of the House
titlecomplete: Daughters of the House
genres: 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, World War II, Female Authors, France, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 502
places: Normandy
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: WH Smith Literary Award
publisher: Picador