I like the premise of the book. The last descendant of the Brontë family gets entangled in a scavenger hunt for some hidden Brontë memorabilia, which her father supposedly has stashed away for her. A literary scavenger hunt and the life of the Brontë´s combined in one book, that could have been a bo...
Samantha Whipple, recently enrolled at Oxford University finds herself surrounded and followed by her past. Still struggling to overcome the death of her father she is also on the hunt for her inheritance, hinted at by her eccentric father. It would appear to be connected to her ancestors, as so muc...
Loved it! This book is a mainstream novel, and I don’t usually read mainstream, much less like it – I prefer genre – but when I do like such a book, it’s often amazing. In this case, I didn’t expect to like it, even after I started. The action is slow, with lots of contemplations and inner monologue...
This is the kind of book that gets the cutesy adjectives thrown at it -- quirky, charming, playful, breezy -- and they're all apt. This is a quirky, charming, playful, and breezy read, a kind of chick-lit-y coming-of-age story that did, I confess, occasionally kill me with the snark, but ultimately ...
Samantha Whipple is the presumed heir to a long-rumored trove of diaries, paintings, letters, and early novel drafts passed down from the Brontë family... Samantha, however, has never seen this alleged estate and for all she knows, it’s just as fictional as Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. Yet everyt...
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Samantha Whipple is a bright young girl whose loss of her father a couple of years ago still pains her a lot. She is however not an orphan, her mother lives in Paris. But Samantha has always had a closer relationship with her father than her mother. So living without him is tough for her. Especially...
And here comes the "real review" or technically speaking me trying to write something that isn't 100% gushing over how much I love the book and failing completely...Samantha Whipple is a bright young girl whose loss of her father a couple of years ago still pains her a lot. She is however not an orp...
Life must be hard for the children and descendents of the famous. They have their forebearer’s legacy overshadowing their entire lives. This is certain true for Samantha Whipple, the protagonist of Catherine Lowell’s The Madwoman Upstairs. Her father is a famous author and they are descended from th...
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