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Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the process, unwittingly jeopardizes his marriage, career, and place in the community.
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4 editions- Ebook · English · 2009Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307491954
- Other · English · 1998Harvill · 302 pages · 9781860464232
- Other · English · 1997Vintage International · 368 pages · 9780679772583
- Other · English · 1983D.R. Godine · 368 pages · 9780879234485
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