by Annie Barrows · NIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782841118724
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«Le secret de la manufacture de chaussettes inusables» is the historical novel by Annie Barrows, published by NIL in hardback (621 pages, in French).
In 1938, Layla Beck is sent by a government agency to Macedonia, West Virginia, to write the history of the town. Lodging with the Romeyn family, former owners of the burned-down sock factory, she uncovers secrets that transform the community. Narrated by Layla, Jottie, and Willa.
The original English version is The Truth According to Us; the French translation is by Claire Allain and Dominique Haas. In 2016 it was nominated for the RUSA CODES Reading List in the Historical Fiction category.
For readers of historical fiction and family novels set in rural America of the 1930s.
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Annie Barrows is an American editor and author. She is best known for the Ivy and Bean series of children's books, but she has written several other books for adult readers as well. With her aunt Mary Ann Shaffer she co-wrote The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, which was later adapted into a film.
