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Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor's family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy, and their two children. Lexi soon adapts...

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Main Author: Jacobsen, Annie, 1946-2005
Other Authors: Brandt, Di, 1952-, Finlay-Young, Jane, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007.
Series:Life writing series.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor's family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy, and their two children. Lexi soon adapts to modern conveniences, happily wears Cammy's expensive cast off clothes, and is transformed from an innocent into a chic urban beauty. When Lexi is called home to Saskatchewan to care for her dying mother, she returns a changed person. At home, Lexi finds a journal written by her older brother during.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 265 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781554580057
1554580056
9781435628434
1435628438
9781554581016
155458101X
9781554587131
1554587131

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