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Magdalena by Sarah Aldridge
'When the police bring Mary Brown, an old street woman dressed in rags and a knitted cap, before judge Ailsa Cameron, she sits silent and unresponsive to the question put to her. Ailsa, deeply disturbed by this spectre in her courtroom, enlists the aid of Camilla, a social worker. Camilla takes Mary Brown into her home, where Mary sits mute and unreachable, until Cammilla's happy-go-lucky Brazilian lover coaxes the old woman into revealing the fact that years before she sang in the Opera House in Rio de Janero.
Speculating that Mary Brown may really be the opera star Magdelena Gibbon, who disappeared three years before upon the death of her lifelong companion. Ailsa and her lover Dina pursue this clue. But how, they wonder, can they reach into the mind of this lost old woman to help her regain her awareness of her true self? And, beyond that, how do they convince the trustee of Magdalena's estate that this is indeed Magdalena Gibbon?' (Book summary back cover.)
Sarah Aldridge has a magnificent writing style; her words rock off the page as though an English professor is reading directly to me. You will not get paragraph upon paragraph of graphic sex but what you do get is just as fulfilling. It's a fascinating story of a powerful love between women, even beyond death. I read this compelling 334 page book every chance I got until the last satisfying page. It's going into my collection for many future readings. On the hot meter this is a 3, on the love meter it's a 10.

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