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The butterfly cabinet : a novel / Bernie McGill.

McGill, Bernie, 1967- (Author).

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A proud, uncompromising woman, Harriet's great passion is collecting butterflies and pinning them under glass; motherhood comes no easier to her than her role as mistress of her remote Irish estate. When her daughter dies, her community is quick to judge her, and Harriet will not stoop to defend herself. But her journals reveal a more complex truth.

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  • ISBN: 1451611595
  • ISBN: 9781451611595
  • Physical Description: 227 pages ; 23 cm
  • Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover edition
  • Publisher: New York : Free Press, 2011.

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Originally published: London : Headline Review, 2010.

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Butterflies > Collection and preservation > Fiction.
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Diary fiction.
Epistolary fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)

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