Book: The Flight of Gemma Hardy Author: Margot Livesey Genre: Romance/Coming of Age Novel Summary: Taken from her native Iceland to Scotland in the early 1950s when her widower father drowns at sea, young Gemma Hardy comes to live with her kindly uncle and his family. But his death leaves Gemm...
The Flight of Gemma Hardy Margot Livesey Hardcover, 447 pages Published January 24th 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published January 1st 2012) ISBN 0062064223 (ISBN13: 9780062064226) more details... The Flight of Gemma Hardy is a decent read. It was not what I expected when I ...
I really enjoyed this story about a young girl who is cast out by her wicked Aunt after her beloved Uncle passes away. As a result, she ends up on a interesting, but often hard, journey that leads her to find her roots, all the while keeping her fighting spirit. Gemma is a feisty character who is ...
Jane Eyre is my all-time favorite book. I fell in love with it when I was 11 and I’m still in love with it now. I love the book so much that I actually bought a hand full of Jane Eyre retellings so I can read a fraction of the original Jane Eyre in different perspectives and themes. But a majority ...
I struggled through some of this one, being so similar to Jane Eyre (one of my absolute favourites) as to hardly seem worth reading. But in the last bit, things went off in their own direction and I was interested to finish.
Solid, engaging retelling of JANE EYRE set in the Orkneys and Iceland. You'll tick off the original's plot points while getting invested in the outcome of this nonetheless original and sweet book. I wished for a little more heat with regards to the romance, but it all came together for a very satisf...
I thought this was very successful retelling of the Jane Eyre story in 1950s and 1960s Scotland and Iceland. Even though she used the same plot, the story seemed fresh and new and I didn't want to put the book down.
I wanted to love this book, and for that reason it was disappointing. There were parts of it that I really enjoyed--I think I would have rated it much higher if it had been the story of a Scottish orphan rediscovering her lost family in Iceland. This novel's weakness was the very thing I had thought...
I liked this quite a bit. Livesey veers far enough away from the details of Jane Eyre for this book to work as a somewhat original novel. While Gemma doesn't have the exact experiences as Jane, their lives are complimentary to one another and the differences make this novel stand out. I think Gemma ...
I was first attracted to this book because it is loosely based on the novel Jane Eyre, which I have previously enjoyed. I can see similarities but this book still stands on it's own. I liked how the book was sectioned into the different times and trials of Gemma's flight through her mostly difficult...
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