Books like The widow and the parrot by Virginia Woolf
When the house she has inherited from her miserly brother burns down, a widow from Yorkshire adopts a parrot that leads her to a hidden treasure.
First publish date: 1982
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Virginia Woolf
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