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The Man Who Loved Children

Christina Stead

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1940
Pages
Pages 530

A blustering, self-adoring father smothers his poor, crowded family with cruel affection while his wife despises him from inside their ruined marriage, until his daughter brews a poison meant to end it and walks free of the wreckage.

All the June Saturday afternoon Sam Pollit's children were on the lookout for him as they skated round the dirt sidewalks
The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead

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