by Clare Clark
The cover of this book caught my eye, while I was browsing the new books at the library. I didn't realize it was by the author of "The Great Stink," but this book did also stink. So much rambling, I just kept thinking, get to the point already! I let it go pretty early on.
In Victorian London, scandal can so easily ruin your life. And Mirabel and her husband have a very big secret to hide! Dealing with a creepy newpaper reporter’s sudden interest in Mirabel and her abandoned family’s sudden reappearance in her life, Mirabel is an awesome, independent, heroine who refu...
Words always fail when I'm really in love with a novel; a problem made worse when the novel in question is written in lush, lovely, dense, tangled, photographic, poetic prose. How do I compete?? Here's my try:Set in the late 1880s, the novel follows Maribel Campbell Lowe, a stunning foreign beauty...