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Stairway to a Secret
An American girl spends a romantic year in London visiting her godmother.
Hardcover, 220 pages
Published
1953
by E.P. Dutton & Co.
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It was growing dark, and across London, one by one, the lights were winking on. Catharine Ann Carpenter, walking past Berkeley Square toward Piccadilly, glanced with surprise at her watch. It couldn't be dusk yet...
It wasn't. It was just three o'clock. But the afternoon was already so dim that she could scarcely see the outlines of the gazebo at the center of the Square; or, fastened to the house railings, the famous black iron link extinguishers where footmen had once snuffed their torches of f...more
It wasn't. It was just three o'clock. But the afternoon was already so dim that she could scarcely see the outlines of the gazebo at the center of the Square; or, fastened to the house railings, the famous black iron link extinguishers where footmen had once snuffed their torches of f...more
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I've enjoyed this lightweight romantic suspense novel since my junior high school days. I keep re-reading it to get a picture of London.
Jun 30, 2010
Eunira
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YA, read in the sixties.
A more impartial reviewer may give this book a 2 or 3, but I found this little mystery/romance set in post WWII England as charming as when I read and reread it as a teen. And reread it. And reread it.
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Tracey
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