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Frances grows up surrounded by parents who love her, yet she remains friendless, manipulative, and cruel. Sent away to boarding school, she must face the reality of her fallacious, white‑picket‑fence existence and the secrets that lie beneath her seemingly perfect family life.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Iman Verjee
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