Watching the roses
By: Adèle Geras.
Edition: 1st Harcourt paperback ed.
Series: The Egerton Hall novels
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Orlando
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Rape -- Fiction; Emotional problems -- Fiction; Family -- Fiction; Blessing and cursing -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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.