Watching the roses
By: Adèle Geras
Edition: 1st Harcourt pbk. ed.
Series: The Egerton Hall novels
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Orlando
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780152015176
Subjects: Families; Emotional problems; Family; Blessing and cursing; Juvenile fiction; Fiction; Emotional problems of teenagers; Rape
Description: After being raped at her eighteenth birthday party, an English girl, whose life resembles a modern version of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, withdraws into a trance-like state confiding only to her diary her thoughts about her unusual family and the events that led to her trauma.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain 1991 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd"--T.p. verso.