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Writing with a pace and intensity surpassing even her own greatest work, anita shreve delivers in testimony a gripping emotional drama with the impact of a thriller. Testimony at a new england boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. At a new england boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Start reading testimony on your kindle in under a minute. Born october 1945 to a pilot and a homemaker, anita shreve is the best selling author of the critically acclaimed novel, the pilots wife among others. Testimony ebook by anita shreve 9780316040174 rakuten kobo.
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