The Tower Room: The Egerton Hall Novels, Volume One
by:
Adèle Geras (author)
Adèle Geras (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780152015183 (0152015183)
Publish date: April 15th 1998
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Series: Egerton Hall (#1)
I'm not sure who this book is for. If, like me, you go into it looking for a retold Sleeping Beauty, you'll be disappointed. It's little more than a hook in the summary, and I doubt I'd spot the parallels if I hadn't been told they were there. The characters are lifeless. There isn't enough historic...
I read all three of the Egerton Hall novels Saturday. They are that short, and they were that easy to read."The Tower Room" is a Adéle Geras's retelling of Rapunzel, set in the early sixties in an English boarding school. All three of the novels in this series are tied together, as the three heroine...