Gail godwins 14th novel, flora, offers a veritable taxonomy of orphans. Gail godwin, whose latest novel is flora, has been a finalist for the national book award and a guggenheim fellow. Flora by gail godwin 2014, paperback for sale online ebay. Gail godwin, suzanne toren, audible studios for bloomsbury. Awardwinning, new york times bestselling author gail godwins penetrating and haunting. From awardwinning, new york times bestselling author gail godwin, a luminously written. David hermonbloomsbury press hide caption toggle caption. Flora, set in the mountains of north carolina during the summer of 1945, is the quiet, yet compelling story of helen anstruther, whom we first meet when she is ten years old and living in a rambling old house with her father, who is involved in secret war work. Flora 20 became one of her more commercially successful novels. Available on kindle ebook and can be read on any device with the free kindle app.
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