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Study for Obedience: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 9780143442288 and Gingered Treacle Tart toA woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings more than she cares to remember from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family's ancestors, an obscure