Five Weeks in the Country: A Novel by Francine Prose Direct from Author she is afraid

she is afraid

their loyal and beloved dog

● True Crime

An elven Princess with a horrifying secret

and warmly familiar way only he could tell it—Matthew Perry lays bare the fractured family that raised him (and also left him to his own devices)

Five Weeks in the Country: A Novel by Francine Prose Direct from Author she is afraidIn the summer of 1857, when British newspapers warned of an approaching comet about to destroy the earth, an unusual looking stranger arrived at Charles Dickens's home, Gad's Hill, in the countryside outside London. Dickens had met Hans Christian Andersen at a dinner party, a decade before, and, in a moment of desperation, had invited him to visit. The visit did not go well. The eccentric Danish author of classic fairy tales, who barely spoke English,