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    <body><![CDATA[After reading the above blurb about the book, I was excited to dive in.  Oh yes, this seemed to fit neatly into my preferred genre!  I couldn’t tell if it was going to be more romance-ish or historical-fiction-y, but I figured either way I was set.<br/><br/>Imagine my surprise, then, when I real...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47286763">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am actually quite disappointed in this book. I read &quot;A Song for Summer&quot; and loved it and was excited to get my hands on another of Ibbotson's books. <br/><br/>My main complaint was that I felt like I had read the story before -- a sweeter, more compelling version with characters I foun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39060776">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first Eva Ibbotson book I ever read was <em>A Countess Below Stairs</em> and I was reluctant to buy any of the other books because I really did not see how she could top it. Regardless I have faith in authors with their craft so I took the plunge with <em>The Morning Gift</em> (I’m a sucker for pretty covers re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28422250">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another charming read from Ibbotson.  I know I keep using &quot;charming&quot; to describe her works, but I'm not sure how else to put it.  They're fun, old fashioned, sweet, funny, and altogether delightful: they're charming.<br/><br/>I found myself skimming in this one a little bit, something I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51202216">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I could give this a 4.5.  This is another book that is now being marketed to young adults but was once published as an adult book.  I really liked the story and the writing style.  This one is set in Vienna during WWII.  Here's the short from Amazon:<br/>Twenty-year-old Ruth Berger is desper...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42495855">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was not my favorite Eva Ibbotson book, but I still enjoyed it.<br/><br/>Ruth, a teenager who is part Jewish, is living in Vienna at the time of the Aschluss. The rest of her family manages to escape to England, but she is left behind because of various circumstances. One of her father's fello...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78523166">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book, and the main character reminded me of my friend Julia from college.  It's about a girl, Ruth, whose father is the dean of paleontology at a Viennese University.  At the start of Hitler's reign, he is replaced with a non-Jew and his family flees to England.  However, Ruth is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63302161">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book up until the last 30 pages or so.  It seems like this author did this in the last book I read by her- The Countess Below Stairs.  It looks like things have all come together and it’s going to be happily ever after, you start to wonder why there are 30 more pages.  And then...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58057127">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel compelled to review this mainly because the reviews towards the top at this point are so negative in tone, with some of the concern focusing around the readability of Ibbotson's writing.  I do not find her writing overly flowery, rather in the books I have read I feel transported to another w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71761441">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this book!  It takes place at the start of WWII.  The main character, Ruth, is part Jewish and needs to escape Vienna.  Her parents and fiance escaped ahead of her, but things went awry with Ruth's escape.  A colleague of her father, Professor Quin Sommerville, helps her escape by marrying her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41629834">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I always forget how much I love Eva Ibbotson until I pick up another one of her books to read.  This story fed right into a recent discussion I had with one of my professors, about being &quot;jewish&quot; and what that means, and the very Jewish idealogy of helping people that he evidently thinks I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75100374">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Twenty-year-old Ruth Berger is desperate. The daughter of a  Jewish-Austrian professor, she was supposed to have escaped Vienna  before the Nazis marched into the city. Yet the plan went  completely wrong, and while her family and fiancé are waiting  for her in safety, Ruth is stuck in Vienna with no way to escape.  Then she encounters her father’s younger college professor, the  dashing British paleontologist Quin Sommerville. Together, they  strike a bargain: a marriage of convenience, to be annulled as  soon as they return to safety. But dissolving the marriage proves  to be more difficult than either of them thought—not the least  because of the undeniable attraction Quin and Ruth share. To  make matters worse, Ruth is enrolled in Quin’s university, in his  very classes. Can their secret survive, or will circumstances destroy  their love?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm such a sucker for romances. This book was good, but very frustrating. I just wanted to know that everything turned out all right, and it took a long time to get to that point.  I was almost tempted to cheat and read the last chapter (which I never do) but I didn't, although I might have skimmed ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32733247">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Twenty-year-old Ruth Berger is desperate. The daughter of a  Jewish-Austrian professor, she was supposed to have escaped Vienna  before the Nazis marched into the city. Yet the plan went  completely wrong, and while her family and fiancé are waiting  for her in safety, Ruth is stuck in Vienna with no way to escape.  Then she encounters her father’s younger college professor, the  dashing British paleontologist Quin Sommerville. Together, they  strike a bargain: a marriage of convenience, to be annulled as  soon as they return to safety. But dissolving the marriage proves  to be more difficult than either of them thought—not the least  because of the undeniable attraction Quin and Ruth share. To  make matters worse, Ruth is enrolled in Quin’s university, in his  very classes. Can their secret survive, or will circumstances destroy  their love?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps it is simply that I am in the mood to be delighted by books--any book of remotely good writing and strong character--or perhaps it is simply that <em>the Morning Gift</em> is truly a book to be delighted in, but I found myself smiling and giggling and railing against the characters when they did stup...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56167254">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Twenty-year-old Ruth Berger is desperate. The daughter of a  Jewish-Austrian professor, she was supposed to have escaped Vienna  before the Nazis marched into the city. Yet the plan went  completely wrong, and while her family and fiancé are waiting  for her in safety, Ruth is stuck in Vienna with no way to escape.  Then she encounters her father’s younger college professor, the  dashing British paleontologist Quin Sommerville. Together, they  strike a bargain: a marriage of convenience, to be annulled as  soon as they return to safety. But dissolving the marriage proves  to be more difficult than either of them thought—not the least  because of the undeniable attraction Quin and Ruth share. To  make matters worse, Ruth is enrolled in Quin’s university, in his  very classes. Can their secret survive, or will circumstances destroy  their love?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book alternated between being enchanting and terrible.  There were adorable moments in the love story that made me childishly giddy, but near the end, the novel became a melodramatic mess.  I gave it 3 stars because of the moments, but I feel slightly guilty giving it a positive review because ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43853921">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Twenty-year-old Ruth Berger is desperate. The daughter of a  Jewish-Austrian professor, she was supposed to have escaped Vienna  before the Nazis marched into the city. Yet the plan went  completely wrong, and while her family and fiancé are waiting  for her in safety, Ruth is stuck in Vienna with no way to escape.  Then she encounters her father’s younger college professor, the  dashing British paleontologist Quin Sommerville. Together, they  strike a bargain: a marriage of convenience, to be annulled as  soon as they return to safety. But dissolving the marriage proves  to be more difficult than either of them thought—not the least  because of the undeniable attraction Quin and Ruth share. To  make matters worse, Ruth is enrolled in Quin’s university, in his  very classes. Can their secret survive, or will circumstances destroy  their love?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A YA romance that I would recommend for anyone.  For me, the Prologue was a little long and tedious, but overall I think it helped establish Ruth's family and the culture she was part of (and driven from) and I don't know how else the author would've done that.  I also didn't like how long it took R...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41103718">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautiful and elegantly romantic tale about a young Austrian Jewish woman who escapes to England during the Holocaust.  Ibbotson's romantic novels written beginning in the 80s are now being re-marketed for the YA audience.  Her writing style seems very much influenced by the romantic authors of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71909566">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[  Ruth is a beautiful girl who only has one little problem: she's a quarter Jew. SO her familty was supposed to leave, but she got left behind. And the only way for her to get out is to marry Quin, a handsome young man. Promising to have the marriage annulled, Quin brings Ruth to safety. Ruth has a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66771375">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ Im Wien der 30er Jahre wächst in behüteten großbürgerlichen Verhältnissen das jüdische Mädchen Ruth, die Tochter des Direktors des Naturhistorischen Museums, auf. Für sie ist schon als Kind klar, dass sie später einmal die Assistentin ihres Vater werden wird.<p>  Doch mit der Annexion Österreichs durch Hitler werden ihre Pläne nachhaltig durchkreuzt. Sie wird von den Eltern getrennt, da man ihr die Ausreise aus Österreich verweigert. Ein englischer Forscher-Kollege ihres Vaters findet die verzweifelte junge Frau und als all seine Bemühungen scheitern, Ruth auf offiziellem Weg aus Österreich herauszuholen, beschließen die beiden eine Scheinehe einzugehen. In London angekommen, läuft jedoch die geplante Scheidung längst nicht so reibungslos ab, wie es von den beiden pro forma Ehepartnern vorgesehen war.<p>  Eva Ibbotson ist es gelungen, die Atmosphäre des Wiens der Vorkriegszeit einzufangen, aber auch das beschwerliche Leben der Emigranten in England packend zu beschreiben. <em>Die Morgengabe</em> ist ein gefühlvoller Liebesroman mit allen Irrungen und Wirrungen. Dem Leser begegnen auf seinem Weg durch den Roman eine Fülle menschlich gut getroffener Charaktere, die am Ende des Buches zu Freunden geworden sind, die nur ungern nach der letzten Zeile zurückgelassen werden. <em>--Manuela Haselberger</em></p></p>]]>
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