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When Lulu was a child, her grandmother Ada filled her head with fables of the family’s enchanted history in the Polish countryside. Each mother in their family has been given a daughter but each daughter has exacted an essential cost from her mother.

Adrienne Celt infuses The Daughters with the spirit of the rusalka, a bewitching figure of Polish mythology that inspired Dvorák’s classic opera. A tapestry of secrets, affairs and unimaginable sacrifices, it reveals a family legacy laced with the resonant ancestral lore that binds each mother to the one who came before.



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"Written in a dreamy, mystical key... Celt’s novel acknowledges the radical shift of motherhood on a lusty, dark note." -- The Guardian

The Daughters: A Novel

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      Publisher WW Norton & Co
      Published 18 July 2016
      ISBN-13 9781631491948
      978-1631491948
      ISBN-10 1631491946
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      Myths & Legends

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      When Lulu was a child, her grandmother Ada filled her head with fables of the family’s enchanted history in the Polish countryside. Each mother in their family has been given a daughter but each daughter has exacted an essential cost from her mother.

      Adrienne Celt infuses The Daughters with the spirit of the rusalka, a bewitching figure of Polish mythology that inspired Dvorák’s classic opera. A tapestry of secrets, affairs and unimaginable sacrifices, it reveals a family legacy laced with the resonant ancestral lore that binds each mother to the one who came before.



      Trade Review
      "Written in a dreamy, mystical key... Celt’s novel acknowledges the radical shift of motherhood on a lusty, dark note." -- The Guardian

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