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In a mountain-locked valley, Jessie is Four simultaneous plane crashes. Three child on the run, when two men crash through the survivors. Dubbed ‘The Three,’ the children all bushland, desperate to claim the reward on her China Dolls by Lisa See exhibit disturbing behavioural problems, presum- head: one her lover, the other the law. But as it It’s 1938 in San Francisco: a world’s fair is pre- ably caused by the horror they lived through and has always been for Jessie, it is death, not a man, paring to open on Treasure Island, and a war is the unrelenting press attention. This attention who is her closest pursuer and companion. And while all odds brewing overseas. Grace, Helen, and Ruby, three becomes more than just intrusive when a rapture cult led by a are stacked against her, there is one who will never give up on young women from very different backgrounds, charismatic evangelical minister insists that the survivors are her--her own child, who awaits her. 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