by Linda Newbery
This is not a light read, it's got a lot of things happening that really are hard to deal with. Two sisters living in a house with their father, some servants and a governess companion are joined by an artist. Supposedly for art lessons but the father has motives. The house is called the house of...
I did not like this book. I finished it because I have this almost constitutional inability to not finish books when I start them, but I felt like it was a watered-down version of The Thirteenth Tale, though actually I’ve no idea which came first. (March 2008)