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The Brontës Went To Woolworths

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'How I loathe that kind of novel which is about a lot of sisters'; so proclaims Deirdre at the beginning of The Brontës Went to Woolworths, one of three sisters.

London, 1931. As growing up looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable appetite for the fantastic. Eldest sister Deirdre is a journalist, Katrine a fle...more

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Published March 2nd 2010 by Bloomsbury USA (first published 1931)

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Mar 27, 2010 Joy rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: reading-list-2010

This is quite simply one of the strangest books I've ever read. One of those books you finish and then head back to the beginning to check out all those things you missed the first time through. And while I didn't actually dislike the book (and I certainly applaud Bloomsbury for bringing back these early 20th century works), finishing it was a struggle at times.

The story is, in part, narrated by Deirdre Carne, one of three sisters living with their widowed mother in 1930s London: Deirdre is a jo...more This is quite simply one of the strangest books I've ever read. One of those books you finish and then head back to the beginning to check out all those things you missed the first time through. And while I didn't actually dislike the book (and I certainly applaud Bloomsbury for bringing back these early 20th century works), finishing it was a struggle at times.

The story is, in part, narrated by Deirdre Carne, one of three sisters living with their widowed mother in 1930s London: Deirdre is a journalist working on her first novel, Katrine is an aspiring actress, and the youngest, Sheil, is still at home being looked after by her governess Miss Agatha Martin (my favorite character). The girls, led by Deirdre and Mrs. Carne, have invented an intricate fantasy life to amuse themselves, which includes many imaginary friends – some of them based on real-life characters. One of these fantasy objects of desire is high-court Judge Herbert Toddington – the Carne women refer to him affectionately as "Toddy" and create a lavish make-believe story around him. Then one day Deirdre is introduced to Toddy's living and breathing real wife at a charity bazaar, and this new relationship leads to complications as the real world and the imaginary one collide.

Those other sisters, the Bronte girls, do figure in the story as well, in a very shadowy fashion. I did enjoy that part of the book, and wished they could have stayed around a little longer. Similarly, I would have been grateful for a little more time spent with Miss Martin, the governess; she provided a bit of welcome relief from all that frenzied whimsy and fabrication.

I believe the reader's enjoyment of the book is probably completely tied up with whether or not you succumb to the (supposed) charm of the narrator and her seemingly deranged family. I guess I wasn't charmed, or at least not enough. Just like many other readers, I spent the first half of the book trying to decide what was real and what wasn't, before I finally realized that question wasn't getting me anywhere. Once I got that reality/fantasy problem out of the way, I actually had some fun with the second half of the book.

And although I never really warmed to the story or its major characters, I was impressed with Ferguson's ability to create a unique world of her own and people it with characters who feel and sound like they belong there, even though they might also be annoyingly silly. According to the information on the back of the book, The Brontes Went to Woolworths was her second novel, after which she wrote nine more before she died in 1957. I think those other novels are worth seeking out.

Note: My copy of this book was provided by the publisher, through Library Thing's Early Reviewer program.(less)

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Jun 19, 2010 Margaret rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: british-literature, brontes, virago, authors-ef

I first ran across this in Lucasta Miller's The Bronte Myth. Virago reprinted it a few years back, but it's currently out of print again; I was pleased when Powell's emailed me that they had a copy.

The three Carne girls live with their mother and the youngest girl's governess, in a London house inhabited by the people of their imagination, real people whom the family have made up stories about and turned into imaginary friends. When Deirdre, the eldest, meets one of these imaginary friends in r...more

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Jul 24, 2011 Elisha Condie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another book from Bloomsbury, those kind souls who republish old books that have before now been lost. They are the same people who printed the Henrietta books I love so much.

But this book...I had a hard time keeping up. The banter was very witty and quick, but I sometimes got lost in what was happening. The Carne sisters and their widowed mother are eccentric, clever, imaginative girls. They find a person they like the look of and learn all about them, making up stories and friendships along...more

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May 04, 2011 Kyrie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal

This story was not what I expected, which was something along the lines of the current Jane Austen and paranormal creatures novels.
First, the Brontes are not the main subject of the story, and neither is Woolworths. Instead it's about three sisters and their widowed mother.
It takes place in 1930's England, according to the cover blurb, which strikes me as odd because it was copywrited in 1931. Okay, it's a year into the decade, maybe she can predict how it would go.
The family is funny (amusing...more

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Jan 29, 2011 Mary Ronan Drew rated it 4 of 5 stars

What fertile imaginations the characters in this little novel display as they create elaborate lives for people they see in a play or in court or spot on the street. Three sisters and their widowed mother (and their succession of stuffy governesses) entertain themselves by learning all they can about, for example, the judge presiding over the trial on which the mother is a reserve juror.

Judge Toddington and his wife, in the imaginations of the girls, come to tea and invite them to dinner. Toddy,...more

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Mar 14, 2010 Nicola rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: arc, own

Reason for Reading: I've heard much praising of this book over the years. And lamenting as it seems it was a Virago Classic at one time but went out of print. I've always wanted to read it since I enjoy early 20th century literature.

Summary: The Carnes, three daughters and a mother since the father died, are not a well-to-do family but they get by and do employ a governess for the youngest, while the two elder are both in their early twenties. Katrine is an aspiring actress attending Dramatic Sc...more Reason for Reading: I've heard much praising of this book over the years. And lamenting as it seems it was a Virago Classic at one time but went out of print. I've always wanted to read it since I enjoy early 20th century literature.

Summary: The Carnes, three daughters and a mother since the father died, are not a well-to-do family but they get by and do employ a governess for the youngest, while the two elder are both in their early twenties. Katrine is an aspiring actress attending Dramatic School and Deirdre is a working journalist who works on her book at home. The family has invented a whole passel of imaginary friends (often based on real life people) and guests who have become a part of their daily lives. They've invented complete fairy tales around these subjects and live quite an extraordinary and romantic life through them. When mother must go sit as a backup for jury duty they add Judge Toddington to their assemblage, calling him Toddy, and his wife and staff. But one day Deirdre is sent to cover a charity bazaar at which she meets the real Lady Toddington and is invited to her home for tea.

Comments: This really is quite some book! First I'll admit that as it starts off I found myself very confused as to who was real and who was imaginary and just what the heck was going on. It all seemed rather strange to have twenty year olds living an imaginary life and I wondered what I had got myself into reading! Little by little over the first several chapters the method of the madness is revealed and everyone is sorted out for the reader. The governess, recently hired, is a drop of reason for the reader as she writes to her sister of the "weird" family and "weird" goings on. Eventually, the sisters' characters emerge and one is smitten with them and truly engaged with the farcical goings on. Once the Toddington's (the real ones) appear on the scene the tone of the book takes a new direction and while the imaginations continue to be farcical they also become a catharsis which I can't really talk about any more as it would give away what happens. And just how the Brontes figure into things not to mention ending up at Woolworths I'm not going to tell though I will mention one word ... seance.

Truly a joy to read! The second half of the book is by far the better half and I was so taken with Toddy (Sir Toddington) and the narrator of the book Deirdre. A delight to read and at less than 200 pages a quick one at that. This is certainly something very different than what is written nowadays and I recommend for those looking for a trip back to the Bohemian British thirties. (less)

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Jan 20, 2010 Nancy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Did I mention in previous reviews that I like the covers of the Bloomsbury Group novels (of which this is one?) Well, I do. They have lovely soft pastel colors with stylized silhouetted figures on them. Covers matter, y'all.

I'm finding it somewhat difficult to summarize this one, I confess. The Carne sisters, Deirdre (the narrator), Katrine, and little Sheil, have a lighthearted habit of pretending to close friendships with people they have met only briefly or perhaps not at all; they tell each...more

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Jan 08, 2012 Ali rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This novel I found enjoyable and confusing in equal measure. I read this in an old Virago VMC edition the jacket of which does not contain such a fulsome synopsis like that which is available on Amazon. In this way the reader is allowed to be confused at the beginning - sorting out what is real and what is not - and seeing as some of the characters have trouble with this it does get puzzling. This I am sure was the original intention of the author - and it does make it fun! This mix of fantasy a...more

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May 06, 2011 Jennifer rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

Quirky, whimsical, and eccentric are the words that spring easily to mind when describing this book. Since I enjoy all of those in fiction, I found it a delight, albeit a difficult to describe one.

The Brontes Went to Woolworths throws you, from the very first page, right into the rich fantasy life of the Carne family, a trio of sisters and their widowed mother. Told primarily by the eldest, Deirdre, we learn of their family enjoyment of imaginary friends. Some of these are of the familiar sort,...more

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Sep 01, 2010 Catherine rated it 4 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This my second time through reading the book. I've always loved the first half which introduces us to the Carne sisters with Deidre Carne, the middle daughter, as our narrator. Deidre is a journalist and this leaves her with plenty time on her hands. We find out the two older sisters, Katrine and Deidre, have a deep abiding love for the theater with the Katrine trying to make her way into that world. The youngest, Sheil, is too small to go theater but is already an avid fan. So the family loves...more

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Mar 05, 2009 Susann rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: persephone

The Carne family lives a blurry line between reality and fantasy. It's blurry to the beginning reader, anyway. To the family members, it's often delicious, sometimes obsessive, and occasionally frightening. My enjoyment and appreciation for the book snuck up on me and what I thought would be a quirky little read, turned into much more. Ferguson gave me lots to think about re: imagination and what makes something real.
I got this from the library, but I think I'm going to need my own copy so that...more

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Oct 22, 2012 Adrien rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, library-book

"Three years ago I was proposed to. I couldn't accept the man, much as I liked him, because I was in love with Sherlock Holmes. For Holmes and his personality and brain I had a force of feeling which, for the time, converted living men to shadows".

Oooh there is so much to love about this strange little book! Deirdre lives with her two younger sisters and mothers in 1930s London, much like any other family. However, the sisters and their mother are prone to creating complete worlds and personalit...more

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Sep 26, 2010 Adam rated it 4 of 5 stars

In short: chatty, lunatic, disorienting, and near-genius.

Ferguson tells the story of three sisters who have constructed an elaborate fantasy life, conferring both their obsession and a weird celebrity status on such characters as: an ugly and long-lost doll, the family dog, and several people (living and dead) whom they have never met. During the course of the novel fact collides, of course, with fiction, and even the supernatural world seems to come into play. In some ways, I would compare this...more

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Aug 24, 2012 Dorian rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: library-books

I picked this up in the library because I vaguely remembered seeing people talking about it somewhere, possibly on Girlsown. It turned out to be...odd. The main character and her family have what I believe is technically described as "a rich imaginative life", which makes the first portion of the book extremely bewildering as it's impossible to tell which characters are real and which imaginary. That improves a bit after a while, and they all go on holiday to an exceptionally dreary part of York...more

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Feb 08, 2013 Genevieve rated it 4 of 5 stars

Many will say it is a strange little book. In some ways it is a bit like being dropped right in the middle of a conversation and trying to pick up the context or even the subject matter. If you are patient you will quickly see what the family is on about and soon you are with them and you watch as someone else might be in your shoes of feeling at a loss.
I found some fantastic lines in the book that I had to write down because there was something hilariously universal about the narrator's commen...more

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Jun 27, 2011 Amber rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-adult

This was an extraordinary book. But first the bad news. The language is archaic, the context dated, and the modern reader -- even one well versed in the mode and general attitudes of England in the 1920s -- will find that the text often verges on the unintelligible. Take this passage:

"We have missed keeping [Hallowe'en] for years, since we left Hampton Wick, where we had parties on every imaginable anniversary, and having no proper garden now has made a difference, especially in the matter of gu...more This was an extraordinary book. But first the bad news. The language is archaic, the context dated, and the modern reader -- even one well versed in the mode and general attitudes of England in the 1920s -- will find that the text often verges on the unintelligible. Take this passage:

"We have missed keeping [Hallowe'en] for years, since we left Hampton Wick, where we had parties on every imaginable anniversary, and having no proper garden now has made a difference, especially in the matter of guys on the fifth, which were what we called the specialite de maison, and famous all over the village for their size and drama."

What? Or take the mention of nostalgia over bitter gelatine on crackers, or some kind of explosive called "starlights"(?), or the entire practice of table-turning - and then add to that a host of deprecated slang, character in-jokes, a half-unreliable narrator, and an author whose style tends to allude rather than to tell -- and well, you have a book that can be mighty hard to understand at times.

However, if you have read a bit of Nancy Mitford or Stella Gibbons, a bit of Noel Coward or Evelyn Waugh -- and if you have a general understanding of what England was like roughly 1880 to 1930, well then you can probably muddle through it as I did. Although to be honest I think I might have given up on it eight years ago when I was more American and less knowledgeable about the era.

If, though, you can wade through the language, and if you like books that veer a bit off the trimmed path, then the initial shock is definitely worth it -- because this is a special book. The plot is a a little hard to summarise, but roughly it goes something like this: The Carnes, a middle class family of four women - a mother, two adult daughters and their young sister - live together in London in the 1920s after their father has died a decade or so before. While on the surface normal, the family lives and breathes a strange atmosphere of shared imagination, verging on delusion, in which they imagine that people they have seen or met briefly are an intimate part of their everyday lives.

Thus, a pierrot (french clown) they saw at the seaside once becomes a daily (imagined) fixture at the dinner table and together they create every detail of his mundane life -- from the wavering attitudes of his wife and daughters, to his favourite foods, and the detailed relationships he has with their other "characters", which include a french doll named Ironface, their dog who is also the Pope, and a judge they encountered once named Toddington ("Toddy") and his wife.

These characters are not just a whimsical pastime, but are integral to the Carnes' shared family psyche. It is implied that the "game" stems in part from their collective need for a (missing) father figure; however, much of it seems to spring from an almost violent need to create, and to be involved in an act of shared imagination, as a form of love. The ghosts of the Bronte sisters also feature in the story, although somewhat later on -- and there is a strong vein of Bronte references throughout the book. The reason being that the Brontes also created collective imaginary worlds as a kind of family bonding. The problem with this, of course, is that there is a deep current of danger in this game, because the Carnes' imaginings are not fantastical -- the "creatures" they create are important to them because they are based on real people and made to be alive with fastidious detail, to make each character as mundane and comfortable as possible, and thus as lovable as a real person. And so the line between reality and "saga", as they call it, becomes blurred to the point of, by the climax of the story, real fear and almost psychotic delusion.

However, this is not a genre novel and not really a serious one either -- it's meant to be light-hearted and the plot, in which the real flesh-and-blood version of one of their imagined characters ("Toddy") and his wife become a real-life fixture of the Carnes' lives, serves more as a means of romantic/comic relief than as a psychological study. That said, there are a lot of interesting things explored in what is essentially a slender volume -- about identity ("Toddy" begins to take on the characteristics of his imagined counterpart because he has never imagined himself in such detail), "good" and "bad" imagination (the governess who is generally treated as quite commonplace writes letters to herself "from" the man she hopes will propose to her), and class (the Carnes prove themselves to be snobs, rejecting in real life characters they "love" in the game).

And anyway, there really isn't another book quite like this. I wavered about whether to give it five stars because the language makes for a bumpy ride sometimes, but when all is said and done it's the kind of book the lodges deep in your memory and sets up house. The first thing I did when I finished it was turn back to page 1 to start the experience again, which is always the sign of a five star book. :-)

Also A.S. Byatt also writes a great introduction to the Virago Modern Classics version -- apparently she is also a fan.(less)

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Apr 29, 2013 Amanda Allen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: old-school-1920sish-books

This book is a difficult one to rate. I read a lot of books, and I was lost through a good portion of the book. Yet it was delightful, and I want to re-read it. That being said, I struggled with it. But through out the book there are little gems like these:

"A woman at one of mother's parties once said to me, 'Do you like reading?' which smote us all to silence, for how could one tell her that books are like having a bath or sleeping, or eating bread--absolute necessities which one never thinks...more

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Nov 04, 2011 Jamie rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anglophiles, especially those wistful for the times of yore; smart women, sassy women.

Recommended to Jamie by: Was it the Magical Book Recommending Machine, aka Dee??

In this charming book, albeit inconsequential in the way that fun novels about the upper class usually are, the Carne family draws us in and confuses us with their vivid imaginary world in which they know celebrities they've never actually met...until they do. I can't say that this story was fantastic in any way, but it worked its way into my daily life all the same.

Mostly, I adored the spunky and spot-on commentary of the protag, Deirdre Carne, and especially her perspectives on:

a. Romance:
"Th...more

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Feb 23, 2012 Michelle rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: historical-fiction, supernatural

This somewhat quirky novel is about 3 sisters, Deidre (journalist), Katrine (aspiring actress), and Sheil (a young girl who has gone through a series of governesses) who live with their mother in 1930's Britain. The family has an active imagination and has created storylines for the doll Ironface, the pierrot Dion Saffyn, and their most recent obsession, Judge Toddington and his wife Lady Mildred. The real world meets their imaginings when Deidre meets Lady Toddington at a charity bazaar. While...more

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May 29, 2010 Shannon (Giraffe Days) rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: classics, 2010

If it weren't for Chris of Book-a-Rama, I might not have known about this book - for a while, anyway! So thanks again, Chris, because I think I just found my new favourite book.

It is 1930s England and the Carne sisters - Deirdre, a journalist and hopeful author; Katrine, a drama student; and Sheil, their much younger sister - are deep in a make-believe world of their own creation. There is Ironface, a doll with tin arms and head who

developed an intolerably overbearing manner, married a French C

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Apr 23, 2012 Neile rated it 4 of 5 stars

Fans of I Capture the Castle and Cold Comfort Farm rejoice! Here is a book that to me has the same charming feel as these two books--two of my long-time favourites. This is the story of a family of three sisters, two young adults and the third eleven, and their widowed mother in London. They are somewhat well-off, but both elder sisters hope for professions, one as a writer, the other as an actress. The story focuses on their elaborate and imaginative family games, where they fasten onto someone...more

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Jan 13, 2010 Abi rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I enjoyed this books immensely. First, it's very funny - the imaginings of the girls (and their mother) are always unexpected and entertaining, and it all becomes rather surreal and wonderful when they get to meet one of the people they have made up their fantasies about. I yelled with laughter when Deirdre accidentally let it out.

It's also a little darker in places, when ghosts appear and you start to feel the youngest child, Sheil, could end up living more in an unreal world than the real one...more

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Sep 10, 2012 Amanda rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I really wanted to like this book, but I just couldn't get past my dislike of the Carne family. The three sisters and their mother are almost incapable of distinguishing fantasy from reality, are terrible snobs, and their treatment of the youngest daughter's governesses borders on the cruel.

On the positive side, the Toddingtons are utterly charming, if slightly eccentric, characters and the book has more than a few wonderful lines. My personal favorite: "The Bronte family has been, like Switzerl...more

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Mar 17, 2010 Becky rated it 3 of 5 stars

Recommended to Becky by: first reads win

Shelves: first-reads, classic, rachel-ferguson

I don't know what I was expecting, but I'm sure it wasn't this. For a "classic book" it had fun elements of the paranormal (I know weird huh) I just didn't see that’s what it was until over half way through the book. It was a little confusing for me especially at the beginning which led to it being harder for me to get into. This book took much longer for me to read than anticipated, a majority of that being because it didn’t grab my attention. The characters were fun but had their own brand of...more

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Jul 17, 2011 Hilary rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

This is one of the most delightful, charming, eccentric and hard-to-explain books I have ever read; I'd put it on a spiritual par with 'I Capture the Castle' and 'The Constant Nymph' - it has very little actually in common with those books, but there is something of the same feel to it. The main characters are the three Carne sisters � drama student Katrine, journalist Deirdre and schoolgirl Sheil � who, with their mother, live in London in the early 1930s and share their lives with an eclectic...more

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Jun 22, 2011 Esther rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: quirky-families

Wow. That was a lot of chatter. Having some experience myself with inventing characters for people only seen from a distance, I "get" the Carne family pastime. But throwing the Brontes into the mix as ghosts/characters seemed like a lot of noise to me in a book already crowded with snippets of dialogue. I appreciate the main theme of the story - that of using your imagination to get you through loss and grief and as a means of meeting your own needs - and wish the author had kept it that simple,...more

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Jan 19, 2011 JackieB rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, humorous

This was quite amusing but I don't think it has aged well (first publiched in 1931). I was recommended it because I like "I Capture the Castle" which I think is much better than this. I thought some of the characters in this book acted in an unbelievable way even for such a humourous whimsical book. Possibly society has changed quite a bit since it was published and their reactions wouldn't seem that odd to someone who knows more about life then. As it is I had mixed feelings about it. Some part...more

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Jun 02, 2012 Jo rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

One of those books that totally (well, almost) made me forget the worries of everyday life. I didn't want it to end, but as is the case with a large number of outstanding books, this one ended far too soon, after a mere 188 pages.

As soon as I became engrossed in it I loved it for its quirky, true-to-life and unconventional characters, the author's remarkably light-hearted style – which is no less unconventional – and the recurring motives of love of literature, theatre, the festive season, allu...more

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Jul 21, 2012 Karen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Wow. It seems like a standard cozy English between-the-wars women's novel and it turns out to be so much more intriguing and quirky than that. Initially the quirks annoyed me, and I was afraid I would hate this book. (It's always awkward to hate a book someone gave you for your birthday BECAUSE YOU ASKED FOR IT.) And I have to admit I'm glad I read reader reviews and spoilers, or I would have had no idea what was going on for most of the first half. By the end, though, I was enjoying it very muc...more

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Jun 25, 2010 Aminaazizmirza rated it 2 of 5 stars

Creepy family with rather selfish and unpleasant habit of make believe about real people. The worst is that they treat the habit seriously. And it drove their poor suffering governess mad! When Deirdre tells that governess she is crazy, I felt like screaming "you and your stupid family drove her to it. Have you thought for a minute of anyone else's feelings except your own, you selfish cows?"

The ghost scenes spooked me out no end and only because the book had a strong - though negative - effect...more

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