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The Whalebone Theatre: Joanna Quinn
Fig Tree, Penguin 2022 (Free Proof Copy, acquired at a charity shop)

For some reason, I thought it was a children’s book, although I was quickly disabused of that notion just by reading the table of contents, fittingly laid out in acts rather than parts. We start off in 1919 ( Read more... )

On Windycross Moor: Mabel Quiller-Couch. Collins, inscribed 1936

I probably wouldn’t have posted about this book, although it features a minor character with a remarkable name Angela Brazil would have envied, Thirza, if it hadn’t been a while since I posted a book review. I haven’t read a lot of girls own books recently.

This is about ‘early Edwardian’ Alberta Jane Penlee, who, very understandably, goes by the name Jane. It has a lot of elements from the story of Cinderella, but not always told in the order you would expect. ( Read more... )

Crossposts: https://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/191066.html

A Pair of Red Polls: Mabel Quiller-Couch. Melson

I felt swindled out of the book that I expected this to be, if that's not putting it too strongly. Subtitled ‘A Story for Girls’, there’s an oval illustration of two teenage girls talking on the front cover. I thought they’d be the two ‘red polls’ of the title, perhaps two redheads named ‘Polly’.

In fact, ( Read more... )

Crossposts: https://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/176589.html

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