![]() It isn’t the type of book I’d usually go for and the summary doesn’t do it justice at all. I wanted to mention that I was recommended this because there is no way I would have chosen to read this myself. I’ll be the person recommending it to everyone I meet in the future because it’s just that good. I was recommended this book by a friend last year and I’m so glad I picked it up because it is a beautiful and heartbreaking story. Steeped in imagery of the bleak wintry landscape around them, the sisters’ struggle towards adulthood is powerfully portrayed in a novel about loss, loneliness and transience. ![]() Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother. ![]() Summary: Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America. ![]()
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