THE RICE MOTHER Rani Manicka PB2002 **GC**

GOOD CONDITION – AS SHOWN – MINOR SCUFFING AROUND THE EDGES – CORNERS & SPINE A LITTLE CREASED – A WELL READ & LOVED BOOK

THE RICE MOTHER by RANI MANICKA – PAPERBACK – 2002 – HODDER & STOUGHTON – COVER PRICE £6.99 – 580 PAGES – Grains of rice stick to her body but time will not touch her – She is the keeper of dreams… THE TIGER – Lakshmi – the fierce matriarch whose thwarted ambitions turn her cruel – Would she destroy all she sought to love – THE ENCHANTED TWINS – They stood & stared at the terrible trick fate played on them – THE PRINCESS BRIDE – Relentlessly wooed, callously discarded, she consoles herself with magic charms & sweet oblivion – THE GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER – The Rice Mother’s true heir – who weaves together the silken strands of the family’s deeply buried secrets as it spans the 20^th century

GREAT BOOK – WELL-LOVED CONDITION – PRICED REASONABLY FOR QUICK SALE