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Flame-Colored TaffetaRosemary Sutcliff

Flame-Colored Taffeta

1986128 pages
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Damaris Crocker had no lived her twelve years in smuggling country without knowing when a Run was planned. This night smugglers, or Fair Traders as they were known to the country folk, would bring more than just the usual contraband of brandy and lace. This night they would bring a mysterious wounded, young man and almost enough high adventure, romance and danger into Damaris's life to make her forget the one thing she wished for more than anything else - a flame-coloured taffeta petticoat just like the one the gypsy girl had worn when she danced at the harvest support....almost enough but…

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6 editions
  • Other · English · 2013
    Flame-Coloured Taffeta
    Penguin Random House · 128 pages · 9781782950899
  • Other · English · 1999
    Bt Bound · 9780833546661
  • Other · English · 1989
    Flame-coloured taffeta.
    Puffin · 120 pages · 9780140340303
  • Other · English · 1989
    Sunburst · 9780374423414
  • Other · English · 1986
    Flame-coloured taffeta
    Oxford University Press · 120 pages · 9780192714909
  • Other · English · 1986
    Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · 129 pages · 9780374323448
FictionSmugglingAdventure and adventurersAdventure storiesJuvenile fictionHistorical fictionChildren's fictionClothing and dress, fiction