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At the outset of sebastian faulks s the girl at the lion dor, lovely, abandoned anne louvet seems almost willing to retreat into the anonymous routines of her waitressing dutiesuntil she meets charles hartmann. The girl at the lion dor, birdsong, and charlotte gray, the latter two of which were bestsellers. Magnificent deeply moving sunday times also available by sebastian faulks as part of the french trilogy series. The girl at the lion dor by faulks, sebastian, 1953publication date 1990 topics english fiction publisher london. As the novels prelude, faulks recalls a french newspaper clipping that describes a young girl being caught milling around the prime ministers garden.
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