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  <default_description>Haunted by tragedy, Charlotte wants to flee New Zealand so answers an advertisement to teach English in Korea. She could have gone anywhere, anywhere away from what had been the sheltered safety of her enclosed rural valley. But is running away from the past the right thing to do? What is &#8216;right&#8217;, anyway? And who, really, is she ?

The Korean students at Speak-English Academy, like the children Charlotte used to teach at Sunday School back in the valley, aren&#8217;t the only ones who have lessons to learn. As the story veers from the past to the present and back again, can the teacher be taught to find her own answers?

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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5096814" title="http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5096814">http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5096...</a><br/><br/>I am sorry to say that I was very disappointed in this novel. It was in fact I found rather boring with the protagonist telling us about her childhood in New Zealand and her current experiences teaching English in Korea. Charlotte was obviously a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57724056">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this rather tough-going at the beginning, but gradually I got into it and felt it picked up considerably in the second half. An interesting view on language teaching abroad and exposure to other cultures, but so very far from my own that I found it hard to relate to Miss Charlotte. As she wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49416515">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't really feel that Charlie learned much over the course of the book, and wondered at someone so naive and unworldly managing alone in such a foreign culture tot he one she was accustomed to.  The ending felt a little rushed, and I didn't really understand how Charlie arrived at her final deci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19704150">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lovely easy to read book. I like the way the Charlie shares her story about the reasons she's found herself teaching English in Korea.]]></body>
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