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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A part tailor-made for Audrey Hepburn!,
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This review is from: Cluny Brown (Paperback)
Ages ago, I heard of an English movie, Cluny Brown, with, I think, Jean Simmons and Charles Boyer. (Made during the early '40s?) But when I finally tracked down the novel from which it was taken, all I could think of was the young Audrey Hepburn, the Hepburn of Sabrina. (Not the pallid Jennifer Love Hewitt of the recent tv-bio, but the real Audrey, as we all knew her.) Cluny Brown is a young working class woman in 1938 London who is becoming a trial to her plumber uncle, Arn (he and his late wife raised her when she was orphaned as a baby). Cluny, described as tall and plain, but with creamy skin and beautiful dark eyes, is beginning to attract too much attention from men---to Uncle Arn's surprise and dismay, because he (and the rest of the family) considers her extremely unattractive. She's sent into service, in the Devon countryside, at Carmel Friars, a lovely country manor. There she meets an assortment of characters, including a priggish chemist (drugstore owner) who fancies her, a Polish emigre writer, who doesn't seem to fancy her at all, the son and heir, who's involved with a blonde English beauty, an enthusiastic double-barreled young woman, Miss Duff-Gordon, who raises rabbits, and on and on. Cluny chafes at the lack of freedom and becomes part of everyone's life, popping up at key moments to comment on the action and providing a good deal of it herself. A charming look at England before WWII and at a refreshing character reminiscent of two Hepburn movie heroines, Sabrina as well as Holly Golightly. We all knew that Cluny (real name, Clover) was a diamond-in-the-rough, and was destined to become "someone." Lovely book.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A pleasure to read.,
By frumiousb "frumiousb" (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Cluny Brown (Paperback)
Reading Cluny Brown has the same kind of satisfaction as a warm bed when it's cold outside. It is not particularly challenging, but it provides an awful lot of reading pleasure.
Cluny Brown is a girl who just does not know her place, and all the adventures that follow come from that lucky not knowing. I read it first as an awkward preteen, and still enjoyed it as an (I hope) less awkward adult. I would recommend it for any age. It is, by the way, one of the rare books where I enjoyed the film just as much.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A British Treat,
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I loved this book - laughed out loud. Would make a fun book to read for a reading group. The story takes place in England right before WWII. The main character is Cluny Brown, a 20-year-old orphan who is living with her uncle in London. She is trusting, naive and headed for what her uncle believes is trouble. To avoid this she is sent to an estate in Devonshire to become a maid (no experience necessary!). She meets very interesting characters and falls in love and I won't say any more or it will spoil the plot. Full of a few twists and turns and flavored by the British atmosphere, humor etc. Give it a try!
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