\'We truly loved reading this beautiful, simple novel in one sitting.\' - ELLEThe bestselling French phenomenonSmita, Giulia, Sarah: three lives, three continents, three women with nothing in common, but nevertheless bound by a rare expression of courage – like three strands in a braid.
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Laetitia Colombani\'s The Braid is the powerfully moving story of three women’s courage in the face of adversity.. .
Her seemingly perfect existence begins to show its cracks .
Just as she is about to be promoted, she learns she has breast cancer.
As a twice-divorced mother of three children, she ploughs through cases at breakneck speed.
Sarah is a successful lawyer. .
Canada. .
When her father is the victim of a serious accident, she quickly discovers her family have been living a lie .
She classifies, washes, bleaches, and dyes the hair provided by the city’s hairdressers.
Giulia is a worker in her father’s wig workshop, the last of its kind in Palermo. .
Sicily. .
When this hope is shattered, she takes matters into her own hands, despite her husband’s warnings, despite the odds stacked against her .
Her dream is to see her daughter escape this same fate, and learn to read.
Smita is an untouchable, married to a ‘rat-hunter’, her job to clean with her bare hands the village latrines, just like her mother before her. \'We truly loved reading this beautiful, simple novel in one sitting.\' - ELLEThe bestselling French phenomenonSmita, Giulia, Sarah: three lives, three continents, three women with nothing in common, but nevertheless bound by a rare expression of courage – like three strands in a braid.
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