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5.0 out of 5 stars
I couldn't put it down,
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This review is from: Hand and Glove (Paperback)
Gartha Wylde's story starts with a predicament quite familiar in Victorian fiction. When her father dies, she discovers herself to be penniless. Off she goes to the wilds of France, to help a young lady improve her English - and from this point on the story takes many an unexpected twist and turn.
Gartha becomes a keen observer of the eccentric but loveable family that employs her, from the curled and perfumed papa to the bear of an uncle. She watches, deeply concerned, as an intellectual cousin and a magnetic preacher vie for the hand of her charge. If you love extraordinary villains, picturesque settings, unlikely lovers and happy endings, as I do, you will relish this book. To quote one of the characters, a novel "is not worth reading if you can bear to lay it down at any moment, like a piece of needlework. The author should hold you captive, and the people in the book should become your own familiar friends." Amelia Edwards has certainly fulfilled these conditions with Hand and Glove. |
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Hand and Glove by Amelia B. Edwards (Paperback - December 15, 2000)
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