Pearl Eleanor Catton Franklin's quiet calm later helps

Franklin's quiet calm later helps him to become an icon of adventure

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Pearl Eleanor Catton Franklin's quiet calm later helpsMarianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her mothers love. As time passes, Marianne finds it difficult to adjust, fixated on her mothers disappearance and the secrets shes sure her father is keeping from her. Yet, in one of her mothers dusty old books, she discovers a medieval poem called