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And Both Were Young

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Flip doesn't think shell ever fit in at the Swiss boarding school.Besides being homesick for her father and Connecticut, she isn't sophisticated like the other girls, and discussions about boys leave her tongue-tied.Her happiest times are spent apart from the others, sketching or wandering in the mountains.

But the day she's out walking alone and meets a French boy, Paul, t...more

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Published February 15th 1983 by Laurel Leaf (first published 1949)

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Dec 21, 2007 Claire Monahan rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: skiers, boarding school castaways, winter lovers

Shelves: own-it, books-for-kids, good-for-a-reread, romance

Dammit, I love Flip. I love Madeleine L'Engle, I love the idea of boarding schools, Switzerland, and French boys and girls snowed into a storm of romance, adventure, and heartbreaking loneliness. (I've also only realized that I've always had a strange attraction for the widowed father and only daughter stories. This one absolutely fills that niche.)

I've reread this book countless times now, and each read only makes me happier and sentimental for the gorgeous but grounding tales of Madeleine L'En...more

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Oct 18, 2007 Valerie rated it 4 of 5 stars

What girl doesn't fantasize about going to a Swiss boarding school, having a dashing artist father, a mysterious and beautiful mentor/teacher, and a dark, brooding forest boy to fall in love with?

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Feb 05, 2009 Andrew rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: wishlist

And Both Were Young is a story about growth, understanding and love. Three themes that Madeleine L'Engle handles with both strength and humility.

Philippa Hunter recently lost her mother whom she loved dearly. Her father, Phillip Hunter, is grieving and involved with a woman Philippa loves to hate, Eunice. Despite Philippa's pleas her father follows Eunice's advise and sends Philippa to attend an international boarding school in Switzerland. At the school she struggles with fitting in and making...more And Both Were Young is a story about growth, understanding and love. Three themes that Madeleine L'Engle handles with both strength and humility.

Philippa Hunter recently lost her mother whom she loved dearly. Her father, Phillip Hunter, is grieving and involved with a woman Philippa loves to hate, Eunice. Despite Philippa's pleas her father follows Eunice's advise and sends Philippa to attend an international boarding school in Switzerland. At the school she struggles with fitting in and making friends, except for one person who is "out of bounds" for a young woman at her boarding school, a boy named Paul.

While it was marketed as a "young love" story for teenagers, I think this book has more to offer than the predictable resolution that Paul and Philippa will get together. L'Engle deftly weaves into what is otherwise a simple story issues of faith and war.

The story takes place immediately after World War II. As a result each character is significantly marked by their experience. Many encountered tragedy, but what I found most interesting were the young characters that didn't know what to make of the war. For example, a young German girl named Erna must deal with people looking down on her because of her nationality, even though she doesn't understand much about the Nazis or their actions.

Philippa also wrestles with faith but in a manner that (I think) is unique to the author. The character seems to have faith in God in a way that necessitates time spent ruminating on him, or just putting her mind at peace, but not in a way that will (necessarily) directly influence her actions. Though this book was not written to evangelize or "theologize," L'Engle characteristically inserts touches of her own faith experience to fill out the characters. One section particularly focuses on non-denominational thinking that added depth to Philippa while (I believe) expressing the author's viewpoint. (Read A Circle of Quiet after this book, thematic similarities abound.)

I recommend this book to anyone who is already a L'Engle fan - it is one of her earliest (1949) but lesser known novels - and to those interested in reading about love and personal growth in a uniquely post-WWII setting. Great summer or holiday reading.
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Mar 30, 2013 Andree rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013, re-read

Totally not able to rate this book objectively. I have loved it since I first read it. Does it have its flaws? Probably. Will I be identifying any in this review? Nope. I feel that since this was a formative book, I can't possibly be expected to identify what those are. This has always been my favourite of the L'Engle standalones. And one of my favourites of her book period.

Thoughts upon this particular reread: It really is about self-discovery, finding out who you are and how you fit in. This b...more

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Sep 06, 2012 My Sister's Bookshelf rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Review: I remember reading this book as a little girl. I love to ski, so the fact that Flip learns over the course of the book definitely appealed. And she sneaks away to see a boy named Paul! How fun! I also loved Flip – her loneliness and her eventual growth as she became the person she wanted to be.

This book did err on the side of young. Definitely. Flip’s friendship with her friend Paul is really quite i...more

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Nov 14, 2011 Judy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 20th-century-fiction, books-from-1949, young-adult

Madeleine L'Engle's career did not take off until the publication in 1962 of A Wrinkle in Time, which went on to win the Newbery Medal and remains her most well known book to this day. But she began writing adult novels in 1945, novels that were published but did not sell very well and quickly fell out of print. She almost gave up writing in 1958.

Had these early novels been around when I was in my teens, I would have read and loved them I am sure. Reading them now, I like them better than A Wrin...more
Madeleine L'Engle's career did not take off until the publication in 1962 of A Wrinkle in Time, which went on to win the Newbery Medal and remains her most well known book to this day. But she began writing adult novels in 1945, novels that were published but did not sell very well and quickly fell out of print. She almost gave up writing in 1958.

Had these early novels been around when I was in my teens, I would have read and loved them I am sure. Reading them now, I like them better than A Wrinkle in Time.

And Both Were Young was her first novel for young adults, published in 1949. It was revised and reprinted in 1983 and that is the version I read. In the Foreword to the revised edition, Ms L'Engle says, "When And Both Were Young was first published, there were a great many very simple things that could not be put in a book that was to be read by children and young adults." She goes on to mention attitudes about death and sex in those days. She says, "So the portions that are now in the book that were not in the original are truer to the original typescript than what was actually printed." Good! I did not miss anything by reading the later edition.

No matter her understandable discouragement, L'Engle's early novels are well written with more believable characters than those found in much of the fiction I have read from the 1940s and 1950s. Her female characters especially say and do things just the way actual people would.

In this novel, Flip (nickname for Philippa), has been sent to boarding school in Switzerland, just one year after her mother died. Her father, whom she adores, is an illustrator of children's books. He has a new woman in his life who "lusts after him" as Flip says, and whom Flip cannot stand. His current assignment will take him to China, a place he considers unsafe for Flip. The solution is boarding school and daily letters back and forth.

Flip is homesick, still missing her mother, angry at being abandoned, and hating the new woman; all appropriate feelings for a 14 year old girl. She does not fit in and cannot make any friends. But she is a Madeleine L'Engle creation, so figures out how to sneak away from the confining regulations at school and walk by herself in the woods. She meets Paul, who is also troubled and angry for his own reasons. Slowly and beautifully they become friends and then fall in love.

One could complain that a few too many unlikely coincidences bring Flip and Paul through their troubles to a happy ending. One could also make the same complaints about the Twilight series, but Madeleine L'Engle does it without vampires or werewolves, in 241 pages, and with just as much sexual tension.

And Both Were Young was reissued in hardcover by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2010; then in paperback by Square Fish in 2011. It is for ages 12 and up. I think the book would make a lovely Christmas gift for any female teen on your list who loves to read.(less)

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Oct 13, 2011 Nmarchunt rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book "And Both Were Young" written by Madeleine L'Engle was published on March 15, 1983. This book has 256 pages within in. It took me about three days to read. The main charecters are Flip and Paul. The setting takes place in Switzerland.
The setting of the story takes place in Flips boarding school in Switzerland. A year after the death of her mother, Flips father has to send her to boarding school because he is an artist that travels a lot, and Flip needs to be in school. Flip is very u...more

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Jul 14, 2011 Elise rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is the story of Phillipa, or Flip. Her mother recently died and her artist father is off doing his part in post-WWII Europe. Flip finds herself in a Swiss boarding school with few friends and she misses her father terribly. Enter Paul and his dog, Ariel, and things start to change for the better.

This was a sweet coming of age story written by L'Engle in 1949. Even though it was written over 60 years ago it still felt current. I read the Time series when I was young, but haven't returned to...more

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Mar 13, 2011 Annie rated it 4 of 5 stars

The last time I saw an edition of "And Both Were Young" was when I handed my copy over to a friend in high school. She liked romance novels, and I thought she should read it because it has the sentimentality of romance combined with a need for self-discovery. I never saw the book again, so thankfully it has just been released as a re-print.

I bought it and revisited this tale growing up, at first with some trepidation. What if I didn't like it as much as I did at thirteen? Would it tarnish my ro...more

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Mar 01, 2011 Kiirsi Hellewell rated it 4 of 5 stars

It's a rare book that leaves me closing the cover on the last page, feeling totally content, at peace with the world, and full of a warm "perfect book" glow.

This book did that for me.

At first it was hard to get into Flip's story...the first half kind of dragged. She had a hard life, and at times I was angry with the boarding-school teachers for being so hard on her. But to her credit, she took their corrections and criticism and tried her best to become the best she could be.

I loved how she gre...more

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Feb 05, 2011 Peggy rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is certainly nothing like L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time! It is the story of Flip, a young girl who is sent to boarding school in Switzerland when her mother dies, and Paul, a local boy who is struggling with issues of his own. Flip is very close to her father and misses him and is grieving for her mother. She does not fit in with the girls at school and is very lonely. Paul and Flip become good friends and help each other through their hard times. This is a sweet coming-of-age story that shows...more

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Jul 14, 2010 Pam rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, ya

Written and set right after WWII, this book is a period piece by Madeleine L'Engle long before she became the best-selling children's novelist in the 1960s. Having been assured this book gives you glimpses of the nascent character traits that reappeared with Meg Murry years later I couldn't resist reading it.

Set in Switzerland, an American girl is sent to a boarding school because of her father's job. Philippa has to deal with being away from home, separated from her father, and still adjust to...more

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Apr 30, 2010 Angie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: nostalgireads, belovedbookshelf, ya

I think this may have been the last Madeleine L'Engle book I read (for the first time) as a teenager. And for some reason it holds a sort of distinction in my head because of that fact. I, like most other readers I know who love her books, got in on the whole thing with A Wrinkle in Time, moving on to the other Murry and O'Keefe family books and then the Austin family series and so on from there. I must have been somewhere around ten or so when I first read the Time series and by the time I got...more I think this may have been the last Madeleine L'Engle book I read (for the first time) as a teenager. And for some reason it holds a sort of distinction in my head because of that fact. I, like most other readers I know who love her books, got in on the whole thing with A Wrinkle in Time, moving on to the other Murry and O'Keefe family books and then the Austin family series and so on from there. I must have been somewhere around ten or so when I first read the Time series and by the time I got through all the others and worked my way around to her standalones I was a bit older. Although one of my very favorite things about her body of young adult work is that there are so many connections between them. And while AND BOTH WERE YOUNG is probably one of the most standalone of them all, for the discerning reader there is a very lovely, very oblique reference to its main character in L'Engle's much later novel A Severed Wasp. Interestingly, I don't think I ever realized just how old this book is. Originally published in 1949, it was actually her first young adult novel. Incidentally, my copy features the old 1983 cover. But a lovely new hardback edition was just released on Tuesday and, as it is one of my very favorite of L'Engle's books, I wanted to highlight it here while I convince my local bookshop to order a copy into the store.

Phillipa Hunter, better known as Flip (oh, how much I love this), never wanted to leave her father and her Connecticut home to come to a Swiss boarding school. That was her father's new "friend" Eunice's bright idea. Since her mother passed away, Flip has grown even closer to her artist father and the idea of leaving him and attending a foreign school among a host of strange other girls terrifies her. But her father is bound for China to draw and Eunice is traveling with him instead of Flip. And so Flip tries to hide her trembling and put on a brave face for her father's sake. But boarding school is just as alien and difficult as she feared. Though the girls hail from all over the globe, Flip finds it hard to fit in. Long-limbed and lacking in coordination, she watches her fellow students from the sidelines and prays for the year to be up soon. The one bright spot in the gloom is her art teacher Percy--a young woman who seems to understand Flip's solitude and need to filter her kaleidoscopic emotions through some sort of creative act. Then one day out exploring further than she ought to be above the school grounds, Flip runs into a young man named Paul. Paul lives with his father in a small cottage not far from the school. These two dispossessed young teenagers form a friendship and, in the process, find the kind of acceptance and understanding in each other that they've been searching for.

Flip is the kind of foot-in-her-mouth, arms-and-legs-everywhere protagonist that I connected with instantly as a teen reader. I loved her for her haplessness and the way that she just kept on stumbling through her outer coating of awkward to a place where she could voice her thoughts and experiences so that someone else could see them and appreciate her for who she was. In my eyes, that made her admirable--that drive to keep going despite the many misconceptions and deliberate slights of those around her. That was what was so hard for me at that age, and I like to think I drew a little strength from watching her try and fail and try again and succeed. It helped that her interactions with Percy were so poignant, particularly in the wake of having lost her mother and being without her father. The other girls at the school were especially well done as well. At first you think they will be mere stereotypical characterizations, the way Flip almost expects them to be, but they each emerge from their initial roles to play an important part in Flip's development. And then there's Paul. Lovely Paul. He has long reminded me of Jeff Greene from A Solitary Blue and a kinder, less destructive Zachary Grey. Yes. You will fall in love with Paul just as much as Flip does. And the even more gratifying thing is that the story is not just about Flip's journey to self-discovery, but Paul's as well. It's not all the way he fills her needs, but how she fills his as he has an unusually dark past that he is rather successfully steadfastly refusing to deal with until Flip comes along. This is an eternally sweet and moving book. Like so many of L'Engle's books, I turn to this one when I want to be reminded that the world and the people in it can be beautiful despite the darkness. (less)

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Mar 22, 2013 Nancy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: coming-of-age, boarding-school, freadship

I enjoy Madeleine L'Engle's writing. This book takes place in Post World War II Europe. The main location is a boarding school in Switzerland. The main character's mother was killed in a car accident, and Flip and her father are both grieving over her lose. Flip is worried her dad will marry a women she doesn't like or trust. The girl is sent to the boarding school, while her artist father travels the world drawing pictures of children, who suffered in the war. Flip is very shy, and has a hard t...more

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Jan 02, 2011 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Jun 28, 2011 Annie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, wishlist

The thing I love about Madeleine L'Engle is that her writing can move from a straight forward telling of the story and then glance over and be so beautiful and evocative. The dialog is a bit simple and formal, but it was originally published in 1949 so that's understandable.

I loved this book because it's simple and sweet but still moving and transformative. She doesn't deny the darker parts of life or of this world, doesn't soften them or skirt around them; but she doesn't revel in them either....more

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Oct 14, 2012 April rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: audio, ya, library

I need more Madeleine L’Engle in my life. Sure, she’s retro, but friends, I’m sort of sighing over the sweetness of And Both Were Young. Weird as this sounds, And Both Were Young totally relaxed me and was such a calming read – bringing me back to a different time.

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Apr 18, 2011 Meagan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, ya

This book was mentioned in a listserv as a read alike for Anna and the French Kiss, which I loved. I'll report on its success...

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Well, I can see the similarities between the two, but just for its sheer modern-ness I have to give the edge to Anna. This one would have been a perfect read to a girl in the 50s or 60s, but for today it felt a little, no - a lot, dated. There's only so much of teenagers saying things like "golly" that a person can stand.

Plus, all the adults kept telling awkward Ph...more

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Aug 07, 2010 KTT rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Sep 02, 2007 Monica Edinger rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: sentimentalfavorite

Well, I would have given it five stars when I read it over and over and over when I was around twelve. (I even tried to copy out the library copy, but gave up after a few chapters. In those times and place, I didn't think you could buy books. Living in East Lansing, Michigan circa 1964, you couldn't very easily.)

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Oct 19, 2010 Meaghan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: childrens-young-adult-fiction, read-in-2010, boarding-school

This was apparently quite daring when it was originally published in the 1940s, so much that it had to be bowdlerized. But it seems awfully tame to me. I read the original (non-bowdlerized) version and find myself wondering just what they felt they needed to cut out. The whole "mysterious stranger lurking around" subplot seemed pretty truncated to me.

Nevertheless, this was a good book. It does a good job portraying the claustrophobic, almost incestuous boarding school atmosphere (I would have HA...more

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Mar 25, 2012 Katie M. rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, ya, reread

Another one of the cherished read-and-rereads of my Madeleine L'Engle-loving youth. As you can probably tell instantly from the cover art, it doesn't hold up particularly well when you're not, like, eleven - even taking into consideration the deeper themes that complicate this story (death of a parent, WWII aftermath, artistic ambitions, etc).

But... shy, sensitive girl who doesn't know how to talk about boys and makeup with her peers but eventually manages to become popular by her own merits? H...more

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Nov 29, 2009 Jennifer rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya-books

This definitely didn't have the magic of many of l'Engle's other books, but I haven't read her for a very long time, and I wonder whether I would find it in any of her books. I liked Flip better as a self-pitying lonely romantic and didn't love the pull-up by the bootstraps and fit in with the rowdy boarding school girls message. Though maybe in the shadow of World War II, that message was more powerful--just get on with the living because too many have died. I was fascinated by the mention of a...more

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Nov 13, 2011 Nadene Law rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved it - every bit of it.
Madeleine l'engle manages to capture her readers with something as simple as describing a scenery. She makes the feelings of each character so relatable that the reader has no choice but to be pulled into the fictional character's world. Even with such a simple and plain storyline, one can't help but feel that the book is captivating.

This book manages to portray the simple, pure side of teenage love - something that many authors fail to do. It is a story of how a q...more

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Mar 21, 2013 LaVerne George rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: keeper, contemporary, sweet-romance

I can't remember exactly when I first read this, but it was before I read A Wrinkle in Time and the rest of Madeleine L'Engle's large volume of work. I only know that I was in my early teens and identified with Flip--the feeling of being just outside of popular and the longing for the attention of some cute boy. The story touches on many ideas that have interested me for years like amnesia, the personal tragedies of war, and sweet romance. My wish is that I will be able to offer as much enjoymen...more

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Dec 06, 2010 Catherine rated it 4 of 5 stars

ROMANCE REQUIREMENT- This book was really well done, as all of L'Engle's books are. Flip's mother has died, and her father (who she loves) and his girlfriend (who she hates)send her off to boarding school while he travels around as an artist. While at the school, Flip meets Paul, a boy who can remember nothing of his past except for the snatches that come to him from the concentration camp he was held in during the war. This story is a romance, but it doesn't have the sappiness or the scandalous...more

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Jul 16, 2012 Lex (Eyes on the Pages) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Originally published in the 1940s, And Both Were Young is a very cute, fun read. The writing style is very to-the-point while still being a tad bit shy about some things. Hinting and implying instead of just saying what happened. The writing style was also very artistic and the book ended up being a lot more suspenceful than I thought it would be. There were a lot of moments were I was like, "OHMYGOD, WHAT?!"

Paul and Flip were really awesome, but I...more

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Jun 07, 2010 Vicki rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010, good-for-girls, vintage-ya, young-adult-books

I would have been totally cuckoo for this book when I was younger -- I really liked it this time, but yeah. I can see having been a young girl, and finding this book somehow and just being over the moon for the whole thing. I loved stories that were so far out of my realm -- a Swiss boarding school in the late 40s?! but still connected somehow. I love the way the main character, Flip, sometimes can only relate to the beauty of her surroundings. She's a flawed, interesting person who grows up in...more

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Apr 22, 2011 Chachic rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: actual-books-owned

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I'm so glad they decided to re-issue this one with a new cover and that I didn't have to hunt down an out of print copy. I love the new cover too, I like how the pink stands out against all that snow and how it portrays Flip and Paul taking a walk. And Both Were Young is similar to Camilla in the sense that it's a quiet sort of novel. However, there's more to look forward to in the former and I enjoyed reading it more than the latter. Even though I'm an outgoing person, I...more Originally posted here.

I'm so glad they decided to re-issue this one with a new cover and that I didn't have to hunt down an out of print copy. I love the new cover too, I like how the pink stands out against all that snow and how it portrays Flip and Paul taking a walk. And Both Were Young is similar to Camilla in the sense that it's a quiet sort of novel. However, there's more to look forward to in the former and I enjoyed reading it more than the latter. Even though I'm an outgoing person, I could relate to how Flip had a hard time fitting in at her Swiss boarding school. Language isn't a problem because she's fluent in French and all the girls are required to speak that. She just doesn't get along with the girls in her class and even her roommates. I love it when Flip said that she's lonely but she's never alone. I have a feeling that if I ever went to boarding school, I'd still have a hard time like Flip did especially since I've never shared a room with anyone before and I've never been athletic (which is a huge factor in Flip's school). Girls can be mean without knowing that they're doing it and I guess that's what Flip had to deal with. Good thing she finds a friend in Paul, another loner that she meets while she's out for a walk. Also, Flip finds happiness in observing the beauty in her surroundings and trying to capture that in her artwork.

This is a very sweet novel and I was smiling when I finished reading it. At only 256 pages, it's a quick read that you can finish in one sitting. And Both Were Young reminded me of old school novels for girls like Little Women maybe because it's set in a different time and yet I could still feel for the characters. I was rooting for Flip right from the start and it made me happy watching her gradually adapt and become more comfortable around her classmates. She started out hating the school and counting down the days until her father can get her away from the place but eventually makes friends with the other girls and even her art teacher. I also enjoyed the setting, Switzerland seems like such a beautiful place based on Flip's descriptions. How I wish I could go there someday and maybe even see snow for the first time. There are a lot of things to like in this book: Flip's close relationship with her father, the friendship and subtle romance between Flip and Paul, the effect of the war in the characters and how some of them have tragic pasts but the book never became too heavy. I highly recommend it to YA fans, it's a nice break from all the contemporary and paranormal reads out there.(less)

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May 23, 2012 Maria Luna rated it 4 of 5 stars

I think that this book is very unique than other books i have ever read in a sense of forbidden love. Madeleine really knows how to spark up a young romance life between 2 people including when some of them are trying to find who they are. Flip and Paul meet in the woods after Flip is sent to a boarding school far away from home and they eventually fell in love. I like madeleines idea of a boarding school, forbidden love, and truth. Not much authors can make it the way that madeleine makes it.

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About Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Many Waters. Her works reflect her strong interest in modern science: tesseracts, for example, are featured prominently in A Wrinkle in Time, mitochondrial DNA in A Wind in the Door, organ regener...more Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Many Waters. Her works reflect her strong interest in modern science: tesseracts, for example, are featured prominently in A Wrinkle in Time, mitochondrial DNA in A Wind in the Door, organ regeneration in The Arm of the Starfish, and so forth.

"Madeleine was born on November 29th, 1918, and spent her formative years in New York City. Instead of her school work, she found that she would much rather be writing stories, poems and journals for herself, which was reflected in her grades (not the best). However, she was not discouraged.

At age 12, she moved to the French Alps with her parents and went to an English boarding school where, thankfully, her passion for writing continued to grow. She flourished during her high school years back in the United States at Ashley Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, vacationing with her mother in a rambling old beach cottage on a beautiful stretch of Florida Beach.

She went to Smith College and studied English with some wonderful teachers as she read the classics and continued her own creative writing. She graduated with honors and moved into a Greenwich Village apartment in New York. She worked in the theater, where Equity union pay and a flexible schedule afforded her the time to write! She published her first two novels during these years--A Small Rain and Ilsa--before meeting Hugh Franklin, her future husband, when she was an understudy in Anton Chekov's The Cherry Orchard. They married during The Joyous Season.

She had a baby girl and kept on writing, eventually moving to Connecticut to raise the family away from the city in a small dairy farm village with more cows than people. They bought a dead general store, and brought it to life for 9 years. They moved back to the city with three children, and Hugh revitalized his professional acting career. The family has kept the country house, Crosswicks, and continues to spend summers there.

As the years passed and the children grew, Madeleine continued to write and Hugh to act, and they to enjoy each other and life. Madeleine began her association with the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, where she has been the librarian and maintained an office for more than thirty years. After Hugh's death in 1986, it was her writing and lecturing that kept her going. She has now lived through the 20th century and into the 21st and has written over 60 books and keeps writing. She enjoys being with her friends, her children, her grandchildren, and her great grandchildren."

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