by Crista McHugh
Received from Netgalley for review, thank you. This was actually a short story or novella (I find it hard to tell on the Kindle), taking place very soon after the end of the Civil War. It centers on Susanna, who has seen her life turned upside-down: their father was killed in the war, their house an...
Cute story, but too short for me.
I really enjoyed this story/novella. Susanna is a servant and her and her brother Hank (a victim of war) live at the Boarding House that their Aunt Martha runs at Vassar College. Susanna is asked to pretend to be Charlotte Hulmstead, one of the nicer girls at the house, and write letters to a suitor...
A Cindrella theme mixes sweetly with a falling in love by letter plot. Susanna has come down in the world since the Civil War, and now waits on Vassar students who live in her aunt's boardinghouse. When one of them asks her for help in replying to a stiffly rude courtship letter from a man she most...
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