Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein Groundswell Speaker 2024 Hardie GrantISBN: 9781784887100Extent: 192 pages

Hardie GrantISBN: 9781784887100Extent: 192 pages

PaperbackPublication: 4 May 2023

as a vicious civil war tears through her hometown of Jaffna

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It is at once a powerful account that captures a nation’s longing for a rail line to reconnect North and South

Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein Groundswell Speaker 2024 Hardie GrantISBN: 9781784887100Extent: 192 pagesA woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings more than she cares to remember from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family's ancestors, an obscure