Interesting set of stories about girls and World War I. As Sally Nicholls says in her story Going Spare "They didn't just do nothing...All those women. They changed the world." It doesn't pull punches, it's full of people being broken and learning how to cope with tragedy.
Disclaimer: Gotten for no cost via a coupon. Interesting retelling of Troy as it focuses primary on women and little people – the soldiers that no one cares about. So if you are thinking of reading big battle scenes, not so much for you. The primary focus is two sisters who event...
I'm not sure who this book is for. If, like me, you go into it looking for a retold Sleeping Beauty, you'll be disappointed. It's little more than a hook in the summary, and I doubt I'd spot the parallels if I hadn't been told they were there. The characters are lifeless. There isn't enough historic...
Book description - Product DescriptionThe story of a family Christmas. Relatives and friends of the Golden family are in a hotel run by Irena, the grandmother and very much the matriarch. A heavy snowfall maroons the family and the enforced stay brings all kinds of hidden secrets to the surface.
This is the story of Queen Dido and nursemaid Elissa and their love for Trojan prince Aeneas. Dido and Aeneas are married but Aeneas is leaving to fulfill his destiny and Dido is distraught. Elissa has fallen in love with the Queen's husband, she knows it is wrong but she just can't help herself. ...
Two amusing stories, well suited for kids who are just starting to read on their own. I'd recommend them to fans of Esther Averill or Six-Dinner Sid. Also a good choice for the Anglophiles - I have always wanted to live on a square with a private park in the center.
Spooky!Lily by Adèle Geras is a ghost story told by Marie, a young woman who is haunted by two ghosts. The first is the infant manifestation of Zoe, the baby that she tragically miscarried during her teenage pregnancy. She is not believed, and is treated for a supposed psychological condition.The re...
"Pictures of the Night" was my favorite of the Egerton Hall series, probably because Bella, the heroine, is the most interesting of the three Egerton classmates. Snow White has always been one of my favorite fairy tales, so that might have helped a little, too, since that's the story being retold in...
The second book in the Egerton Hall series, "Watching the Roses," is a LOT darker than "The Tower Room."This book focuses on a retelling of Sleeping Beauty. The story in "Watching the Roses" is sort of cloaked -- I mean, I could figure out what happened about ten pages in, but I imagine it would be ...
I read all three of the Egerton Hall novels Saturday. They are that short, and they were that easy to read."The Tower Room" is a Adéle Geras's retelling of Rapunzel, set in the early sixties in an English boarding school. All three of the novels in this series are tied together, as the three heroine...
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