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  The Story of Beautiful Girl (Paperback) By (author) Rachel Simon

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  Short Description for The Story of Beautiful GirlOn a stormy night in small-town America, a couple, desperate and soaked to the skin, knock on a stranger's door. When Martha, a retired schoolteacher living a safe and conventional life, answers their knock, her world changes forever. For they are fugitives.
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  • Publisher: Preface Publishing
  • Published: 02 June 2011
  • Format: Paperback 352 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781848093393 ISBN 10: 184809339X
  • Sales rank: 20,796

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Reviews for The Story of Beautiful Girl

• PageTurning and Simply Beautiful Highly RecommendedBook rating: 5

  I couldn't have known when I bought it that this book would become one of the books I would have to love and remember for a long time to come. THE STORY OF A BEAUTIFUL GIRL is a story to read and keep inside for life.
  
  The setup comes on the first page, of an elderly woman who is suddenly thrust into an unlikely relationship with a man and a woman seeking shelter at her farmhouse from a torrential storm. Soon, the elderly woman, Martha, discovers the couple also has a baby tucked into their dripping coverings -- a newborn not more than hours old. And thus begins the story, gripping, shocking, heart-warming and at times heart-wrenching, and most of all hope-filled.
  
  Through the unfolding of many years, we watch as the couple, their baby, Martha, and other key caregivers' lives are torn apart, and yet have to root for them as the characters struggle, journey, and strive to come back together. And as the last page nears, the page-turning happens with more and more urgency. For me, the ending was brilliant, tying together so many dangling threads, yet returning the reader to many points in the story at the same time. I have not read many more satisfying endings in my life, and know this will be a book I will have to gift to many friends, and reread myself many times. Beautiful girl's story is that good. A huge thank you to Rachel Simon for such a luminous and affecting story. by Jennifer King

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