A house for Miss Pauline

When the stones of her house begin to rattle and shift and call out mysterious messages to her in the middle of the night, Pauline Sinclair, age ninety-nine, knows she will not make it to her one-hundredth birthday. She has lived a modest life in Mason Hall, a rural Jamaican village, educating herse...

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Main Author: McCaulay, Diana (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2025.
Edition:First edition.
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500 |a "A tender and urgent story about who owns the land on which our identities are forged, starring an unforgettably fierce ninety-nine-year-old heroine"-- Provided by publisher. 
520 |a When the stones of her house begin to rattle and shift and call out mysterious messages to her in the middle of the night, Pauline Sinclair, age ninety-nine, knows she will not make it to her one-hundredth birthday. She has lived a modest life in Mason Hall, a rural Jamaican village, educating herself with stolen books, raising her two children, surviving by becoming a successful ganja farmers in the area, and experiencing both deep passion and true loss with her beloved baby father, Clive. 
650 0 |a Man-woman relationships  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Family secrets  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Grandmothers  |z Jamaica  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Interpersonal relations  |v Fiction. 
651 0 |a Jamaica  |v Fiction. 
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