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    <body><![CDATA[Having now read two of Ibbotson's teen romances, I am beginning to see a trend.  Both have featured angelic young women who coo over babies and frolic in meadows and have no personality whatsoever.  These young women fall in love with great guys: tough, handsome, intelligent, whom they barely know. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5857677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was underwhelmed by this one, especially after how much I enjoyed <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18135.Romeo_and_Juliet" title="Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare">A Company of Swans</a>.  I found Ellen's &quot;thing&quot; (the oft-underrated domestic arts) far less interesting than Harriet's (ballet!).  I found it odd that the romance seemed to be relatively unimportant to the story until the ver...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46456765">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Set in Austria and London just before and during World War II, <em>A Song for Summer</em> follows a young woman named Ellen Carr who takes a job as a housekeeper at an unusual private school in the Austrian Alps. I knew this book and I would get on when Ellen first arrived at Schloss Hallendorf to find a tor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18030720">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Austria, Hitler's Reich is rising in power, and there are hints of war. Ellen's family is pleased when she gets a job in an unconventional boarding school, safely isolated in the beautiful Austrian countryside.<br/><br/>Once ensconced at the school, Ellen falls in love with the land, the childr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77075788">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>A Song for Summer</em> is set just before World War II, when young Englishwoman Ellen Carr goes to Austria to take a position as matron to an unconventional boarding school and becomes caught up in the life of the school, as well as with the school's mysterious handyman and his quiet struggle against Hit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75549319">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was so glad to have finished this book! I kept reading in hopes that the story would get better or the characters would evolve and none of this ever happened.<br/><br/>There was a total lack of character development-everyone was very one-dimensional and the order that their individual stories wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74494288">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[geez, this is way troo adorable!!!! as they are coming to marek's home at the end of part one, your all happy, but then your like...wait... why are there so many pages left???? HE LEAVES HER AND SHE MARRIES STUPID KENDRICK!!!! KENDRICK IS SUCH AN IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would give the first 2/3 of this book 5 stars. I absolutely loved the first part. It was so sweet, romantic, enchanting. But it took a disappointing turn and the whole spirit that was carefuly built up was twisted and broken. Yes, it ended up happy, but it wasn't a completely satisfying conclusion...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58229502">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting twist on Ibbotson's academic heroines, where main-character Ellen abandons university education and the traditions of her suffragette aunts to embrace republican motherhood and work with her hands.  While this premise fails to resonate with me, Ibbotson writes Ellen with such good-nature...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73224528">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book. It's sweet and humorous, like everything Eva Ibbotson writes. It is not exactly of that wonderful quality that people enjoy writing about when they read high literature, and all of Ibbotson's romance novels follow exactly the same skeleton, but neither of these facts should keep yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80105103">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book alot because it showed alot of really good details and surprises that I did not expect. I liked the main character elaine and I liked all of the minor characters in the book. The plot of this book is that Elaine is a college age girl in London before WWII and she goes to be a matro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73727137">more...</a>]]></body>
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