Judith's review
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
by Jeanne Birdsall
Judith's review
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall
Judith's review
rating:
If I didn't know better, I'd have said this was an English novel written a decade or two before the time I was first reading English novels about a family full of sisters during a long, eccentric summer (In other words, the 1950s and 60s).
Is that a sub-genre? If it is, it's one of my favourites, and this book is just about a perfect example of it. It's not English, of course, it's a US writer and setting/family, but it evokes those wonderful, languid-with-an-edge novels of country life—bad mothers, beleaguered boys, and a set of cranky, determined, romantic, impossible sisters.
I loved it. Looking forward to the sequel.
Is that a sub-genre? If it is, it's one of my favourites, and this book is just about a perfect example of it. It's not English, of course, it's a US writer and setting/family, but it evokes those wonderful, languid-with-an-edge novels of country life—bad mothers, beleaguered boys, and a set of cranky, determined, romantic, impossible sisters.
I loved it. Looking forward to the sequel.
