The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times BestsellerTHE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD. 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris, from

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When Amy meets Lucy Watts

beside a creek on the grounds of the grand and mysterious mansion

It is a novel for everyone

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Both eventually come to painful discoveries about the inescapable ties of family

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the book also delivers a telling look at a vast and complex country on the brink of transformation that will soon shape the way we all work

Will’s old employer

But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife

Orphaned at birth

Here is a book to make you happy when you gently close it