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The Quintland sisters : a novel / Shelley Wood.
In Shelley Wood's fiction debut, listeners are taken inside the devastating true story of the Dionne Quintuplets, told from the perspective of one young woman who meets them at the moment of their birth.Reluctant midwife Emma Trimpany is just 17 when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne quintuplets: five tiny miracles born to French farmers in hardscrabble Northern Ontario in 1934. Emma cares for them through their perilous first days and when the government decides to remove the babies from their francophone parents, making them wards of the British king, Emma signs on as their nurse.Over 6,000 daily visitors come to ogle the identical "Quints" playing in their custom-built playground; at the height of the Great Depression, the tourism and advertising dollars pour in. While the rest of the world delights in their sameness, Emma sees each girl as unique: Yvonne, Annette, Cec
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062897466
- ISBN: 0062897462
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (11 hr., 27 min., 36 sec.)) : digital.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : HarperAudio, 2019.
Content descriptions
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Tavia Gilbert. |
| Source of Description Note: | Hard copy version record. |
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| Subject: | Dionne quintuplets > Fiction. Midwives > Fiction. Quintuplets > Ontario > Fiction. Diaries > Fiction. FICTION / Historical / General. |
| Genre: | Downloadable audio books. Audiobooks. |
