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Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy (1981)

Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy (1981)

Literary Fiction

Rumer Godden

Year: 1981
Authors: Rumer Godden
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Front flap: The heroine is Lise, an English girl who, after the liberation of Paris, falls into bad company and, after a period in one of Paris’s smartest brothels, becomes a successful madam - *La Balafrée*, the Scarred One. The story of her prison sentence, her conversion, and her agonizing work among women whose experiences outdid even her own is also the story of one woman’s searing confrontation with her faith and, above all, herself.