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When Vera decides to travel to an old house in the New England countryside for a month-long escape from some devastating news about her daughter, Cassie, she has no idea her life is about to change forever. It begins innocently enough - peeling the old wallpaper from the walls as a favor to the house's owner. What she discovers underneath - written in India ink on the very walls of the house by a woman named Beth, in 1919 - is the beginning of the reader's unsettling crossing into the unknown world underneath the paper. "The Writing on the Wall" is a brilliantly realized journey into the connected lives of three women whose stories span a century, linked by the house they all briefly inhabit, and by the tragedies they've had to endure. And it's not just their own stories that reveal themselves. A brilliant schoolteacher, back from the war in the trenches, finds the pupils of his dreams. A young Vietnam draftee makes a stubbornly quirky separate peace. The moody, dangerously charismatic leader of a commune becomes the unlikeliest of heroes. An "ordinary" housewife's lonely battle propels her onto the national stage. A girl sent to Iraq tries to make sense of the chaos and the pain. "The Writing on the Wall" is about stories that can't be told, but must be told - about secrets that can't be shared, but must be shared - and the surprising ways people find to confront the truth.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Writing on the Wall
• Subtitle: A Novel
• Author: W. D. Wetherell
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9781611457445
• ISBN: 1611457440
• ID: 04838071
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Weight: 440 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. September 2012

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