Well educated, sensible, and apt to take people in hand, Miss Flora Poste is nevertheless a teenaged orphan without much in the way of finances (at least by her standards). So she resolves to live with relatives, both as a cost-savings and to provide her with material for the novel she intends to w...
Sometimes my lovely boyfriend agrees to read for me. He has a very delicate english accent, and I love hearing the stories come to life in his soft voice. This book was no exception.When I read it by myself I couldn't help but to giggle a little bit. But when he read the words out loud, we both burs...
This little book is charming and clever but more than that, it's highly amusing. I laughed out loud several times and it's one of those books you want read passages aloud from. The reason it gets 4 stars and not 5 is it's a little too knowing and becomes a little repetitive. A small price to pay...
It took a couple of chapters to get into the rhythm of the book but once I did, it was great. A busybody of a protagonist that was very serious about changing everyone's life. Very funny.
Well, I have wanted to read this book for several years, but haven't been able to get it. Finally got my hands on it though our local university, and I can say that it was worth the wait. Absolutely hilarious! Flora Poste has been left an orphan at the tender age of 19. Having no marketable skills, ...
Laugh-out-loud funny at times; very insular, and knowledge of Victorian and Edwardian history and politics is required to get some of the inside jokes Gibbons maps on to very caricature-esque characters. Some of the chapters dragged on and I felt this would have worked better as a short story or nov...
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