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Davenport House Prequel: Debutante by [Silk, Marie]

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by Marie Silk (Author)

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The family saga begins in Debutante, a prequel to the best-selling Davenport House series. A life of luxury for the Davenports means drudgery for the servants on the grand country estate. This is their story in 1909 America, six years prior to the events of book one.

While her father is away on business, sixteen-year-old Mary Davenport feels confined and alone, despite her privileged life at the family's mansion. As the day of Mary's debutante ball draws near, the servants are conflicted by instructions from Mary's mother to starve her until she fits into a gown that was made too small. Mary is also under pressure to act the part of society while being forbidden from seeing her only friend, the servant boy who works in the stable.

In a shantytown hours away, a young girl called Abigail is hired to sew a gown for a dressmaker's wealthy patron. Abigail gives up her education in order to provide for her impoverished family. Neither she nor Mary is aware of how connected their futures are destined to become.

Length: 82 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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"...buttoned-up plotting of a type that might appeal to Downton Abbey fans..." -Historical Novel Society Review of Davenport House

From the Author

This book is a novella (shorter than the books that follow in the Davenport House series). I hope you enjoy this glimpse into the early lives of Mary, Clara, Ethan, and Abigail. Thank you for reading ♥.

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File Size: 2292 KB
Print Length: 82 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 194641302X
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publication Date: April 21, 2017
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B06XR3JBSY
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What a beginning

ByMzLabbyon April 29, 2017

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A great start to a historical series. This is a book you will truly enjoy . the debutant main character is adventurous independent and daring while being kind to servants and wholly taken with the equestrian. Her trials with a snarky mother and her self centered ideas are bound to create tensions for our demure debutant! You will enjoy reading how she outsmarts her. A secondary story of a young Irish girl struggling to survive in a world hostile to the Irish promises to be both interesting and exciting in future books as the groundwork is laid in this book for an awesome series .

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Delightful series!

ByAmazon Customer Lindaon May 16, 2017

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I happened upon the first book in this series and found it intriguing. I have now read the entire series and await impatiently for the next book! The characters are interesting and heart warming . The stories capture you and you can't put the book down. Prepare yourself for a wonderful read!

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Good read!

ByMariah Yorkon May 18, 2017

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I liked the entire Davenport House series. I love long sagas that take a while to read so I have something to look forward to every night.

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Enjoyable

Bysher in MOon July 22, 2017

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Interesting story ling regarding one family's history.

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Five Stars

ByLadyDVCMon August 20, 2017

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Love the Davenport series and sorry they have ended. Hope to read more stories like the Davenport.

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Five Stars

ByPATon July 20, 2017

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Ienjoyed all of the books in this series

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ByWynnCreek5on April 22, 2017

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The story is about the parallel lives of a rich debutante and the poor Irish girl. The story is pretty formulaic. There's really no surprises. It's the usual poor little rich girl and heartbreaking perils of the poor girl with a heart of gold. It was very short. It also ended abruptly. Obviously it's a serial type story but I wouldn't say that it ended with a cliffhanger. The villain of the piece is very obvious and you really wonder where the author is going with this until you read the teaser I guess it would be to the next story. I would recommend the story at this point if you like this sort of thing I probably need to get further into the story to really decide. But if you're fast radar like I am you can read this in no time. And I will read the next part of it so that should say something.

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I’m Glad I Read Book One First

ByGinger B.on September 19, 2017

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This is a short (82 pages) prequel that sets the scene and introduces the characters of the Davenport House Series. I read Book One of the series last year, so I came to this introduction with the expectation that reading it would be a similar experience—at least for this reader, not so much. The characters were less convincing and the underlying dramatic action wasn’t enough to keep me involved in the story. I’m glad I read Book One first or I might have passed up this promising series all together. I would give this prequel 2.5 stars rounded to three, and encourage future readers to skip the prequel and jump right into the series.

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Davenport House Prequel

Okay, so I reached volume 7 of the Davenport series and then read this prequel. At the wrong end of the series.Read more

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Great character development!

Great character development! I immediately started in on the first book to learn more. I feel like I am very connected to the characters and I'm eager to see their stories play...Read more

Published 1 month ago by JJ

One Star

I deleted it after 1 chapter.

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patjoy

This was the prequel to book one which I read after book 1 that answered some of my questions.

Published 3 months ago by patjoy

Too short

I don't think I got the whole book as the story ended abruptly and didn't make sense!

Published 4 months ago by tina

Davenport House Prequel

Sorry I feel this was not necessary and could have been included in one of the other Davenport books.Read more

Published 5 months ago by Dixie Girl

Heartwarming and captivating

I loved this book, it was very well written and allowed you to get to know about the characters that follow in the next chapters of the books.

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