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Peggy riley is a writer and playwright living on the north kent coast. The girls, amity and sorrow, cant imagine what the world holds outside their fathers polygamous compound. But that doesnt mean i enjoyed the book any less than if id found it to be about god, sex and farming. See all 19 formats and editions hide other formats and editions.
Peggy riley is an american writer and playwright living in england. Her short fiction has been broadcast on bbc radio and has been published in new short stories 4, mslexia magazine, and as an app on ether books. For me, rather than a book about god, sex and farming, which is how peggy riley describes it, i think amity and sorrow is about the body, nature and hope. I noticed that when im looking at my library on the device, calibre has the wrong total number of books listed. I think women might enjoy this story more easily than men, but i would recommend this book for any adult who enjoys good storytelling, complex, welldrawn. Peggy rileys novel amity and sorrow tells the story of amaranth, the first wife of zachariahs fifty wives, and her two daughters, amity and sorrow, as they leave the secret compound that has been their home. Sequel to islands of rage and hope, to sail a darkling sea, and under a graveyard sky.
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We watch as amaranth slowly discards those rules, if only to survive. A mother and her daughters drive for days without sleep until they crash their car. A pageturning literary debut about a mother and her two teenage daughters escaping a cult and starting over. She recently won a highly commended prize in the 2011 bridport prize. A mother and her daughters drive for days without sleep until they crash their car in rural oklahoma. Amity and sorrow by peggy riley playwright peggy rileys brilliantly original debut pitches you into a strange world of religious cults, parched landscapes and failing farms as the. A mother and her daughters drive for days without sleep until they. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over.
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