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Havisham : a novel / Ronald Frame.

ISBN: 9781250037275
ISBN: 1250037271
ISBN: 9781250056108
ISBN: 1250056101
Physical Description: 357 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First Picador edition.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Picador, 2013.

Frame, Ronald,: (author.). Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Great expectations. (Added Author).

Summary:

Before she became the immortal and haunting Miss Havisham of Great Expectations, she was Catherine, a young woman with all of her dreams ahead of her. Spry, imperious, she is the daughter of a wealthy brewer. But she is never far from the smell of hops and the arresting letters on the brewhouse wall, a reminder of all she owes to the family name and the family business. Sent by her father to stay with the Chadwycks, Catherine discovers elegant pastimes to remove the taint of her family's new money. But for all her growing sophistication, Catherine is anything but worldly, and when a charismatic stranger pays her attention, everything her heart, her future, the very Havisham name is vulnerable. In Havisham, Ronald Frame unfurls the psychological trauma that made young Catherine into Miss Havisham and cursed her to a life alone, roaming the halls of the mansion in the tatters of the dress she wore for the wedding she was never to have.