Content: G
BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS - OPTIONAL
APPEALS TO: SOME
It’s 1896 and Poly, Sophia, and Tirzah have left their boarding school, embarking upon very different lives now that they are home. Sophia is living a rich life in London, looking for a husband on the Marriage Mart. Tirzah has been sent to a remote part of Scotland to live as unpaid help for a grumpy, elderly grandmother. And Polly is working as a teacher at a poor, yet loving orphanage in the north of England. Through their letters, the heartache and drama in each of their lives unfolds.
No murder, no sexy romance (though there IS romance involved) - do teens read heartfelt historical fiction any more? I thoroughly enjoyed this peek into the girls’ lives and life in England at the end of the 1800’s - when life was so differently paced than our lives now.
Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS
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