Girl Who Trod on A Loaf

Helle Ten Brix, a Danish composer of operas, dies leaving as part of her will her unfinished opera, "The Girl Who Trod On a Loaf", to Frances Thorn, a young woman whom Helle has befriended. The opera, it transpires, is the key not only to the riddle of Helle, but also to the dilemma of Frances.

Girl Who Trod On a Loaf

DAVIS, KATHRYN

Penguin??Books

A young woman in flight from her past, and an old woman whose secrets are contained in the grave--with this configuration, Davis begins a novel of true bravura about opera, adultery, and murder.

The girl who trod on a loaf

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Hamish Hamilton

The prize-winning author of Versailles tells the story of a small New England village unsettled by a young girl's unearthly gift.

The Thin Place

United States

Back Bay Books

A young woman in flight from her past, and an old woman whose secrets are contained in the grave--with this configuration, Davis begins a novel of true bravura about opera, adultery, and murder.

The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf: A Novel

Discovering a dead body at a lake near the Canadian border, twelve-year-old Mees Kipp inexplicably brings the man back to life and realizes that she possesses an extraordinary gift that irrevocably shapes the lives of Mees, her two friends, and their community. By the author of Versailles.

The Thin Place: A Novel

Little,Brown & Co

Part mystery, part domestic meditation and part horror story, "Hell is Davis's tour de force." (Joy Press, The Village Voice). In her brilliantly eerie third novel, three households coexist in a single restless vision.

Hell: A Novel

Wittily entertaining and astonishingly wise, this novel of the life of Marie Antoinette finds the characters struggling to mind their step in the great ballroom of the world.

Versailles: A Novel

Romance

A New York Times Notable Book and the winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction, Kathryn Davis's "dazzling first novel" (Kirkus Reviews) "transforms a literary commonplace -- a young girl's transition from childhood to adulthood -- into a brilliantly original story" (Belles Lettres). In LABRADOR, Davis conjures two unforgettable sisters. Willie, the elder, is beautiful and wayward. Kitty, the younger, is a loner whose only means of escaping the bewitching influence of her sister is to follow her grandfather to his home in Labrador, where she cannot avoid confronting the demons that haunt her. A tale of two sisters and the ambiguous, sometimes destructive ties that bind them, LABRADOR is a tender meditation on love, its joys, its limitations, and its hidden bitterness.

LABRADOR

RH Canada UK Dist

Describes the relationships between Kitty and her older, wayward sister, Willie, and Rogni, an angel

Labrador

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Literary

Anchor

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Girl Who Trod On a Loaf

The girl who trod on a loaf

The Thin Place

The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf: A Novel

The Thin Place: A Novel

Hell: A Novel

Versailles: A Novel

LABRADOR

Labrador

Labrador