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"When Addy Shadd was a young girl living in Rusholme, she was taught the history of her town, which was settled by fugitive slaves in the 1800s. It was told to her like a storybook legend - and although Addy is forced to leave her beloved home as a teenager, the place will call her for the rest of her life. She thinks of it as a commandment: "Rush home, Addy Shadd. Thou shalt rush home." But the stories and memories of Addy's past have been buried deep in her seventy-year-old heart - memories that are by turns dark and poignant, erotic and mysterious.". "When five-year-old Sharla Cody is…
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15 editions · 3 languages- Paperback · English · 2008Back Bay Books · 416 pages · 9780316008037
- Paperback · English · 2003Virago Press Ltd · 448 pages · 9781860499760
- Audiobook · English · 2002Warner Adult · 9781586212780
- Paperback · English · 2002Virago Press Ltd · 320 pages · 9781860499371
- Other · English · 2012Vintage Canada · 547 pages · 9780307363282
- Other · English · 2011Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 448 pages · 9781405512954
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