The Gilded Lily - Deborah Swift • BookLikes (ISBN:0330543431)

The Gilded Lily

by: Deborah Swift (author)

3.50 20

Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780330543439 (0330543431)

Publish date: September 13th 2012

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Pages no: 304

Edition language: English

Category:

Young Adult, Adventure, European Literature, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Adult

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Blodeuedd rated it

11 years ago

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I wanted more from this one but it fell kind of flat for me. First we got Ella who is a bitch. She robs her previous employer and goes to London to get pretty things and a man. I never liked her, I guess I was never meant to like her but I think she got off too easy. Sadie could have been goo...

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12 years ago

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Set in the 1660s, the story follows Ella and Sadie Appleby, girls from rural England who flee to London after a tragedy with Ella's employer, and there they find themselves struggling to survive. Restoration London for these two is dark, dank, dirty, and exhausting, and Swift's writing made the gri...

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