Villette

by Stephanie Baudet

Lucy Snowe has suffered enough loss and misery to fill a lifetime. When she moves to Villette and becomes a teacher, she hopes she can finally find happiness. Here, long-forgotten people and memories surface from her past. But Lucy finds that falling in love isn’t straight-forward. And she keeps running into a ghostly nun that haunts the school grounds …

112 pages, Paperback

Published February 24, 2022

About the author

I'm the author of over 50 books for children plus an historical novella for adults.

I have been published by such companies as Puffin, Andre Deutsch, Hamish Hamilton, Cambridge University Press, Anglia Young Books and Poolbeg Press, and I'm currently working on my third series for Sweet Cherry Publishing.

I have been teaching creative writing, as well as copy-editing and proof-reading, for over 15 years, and also do manuscript appraisals at very competitive rates.

Please see my website:
http://www.stephaniebaudet.co.uk/

Reviews

[Joey-Susan]

Death follows Lucy as a long line of her family and friends all die so suddenly she then becomes lost and alone, moving to France she finds a new job and makes some new friends and reignites old friendships from early childhood. But with the school she works at being haunted by a dead nun it becomes a bit scarier, then she becomes sick and it’s not all so easy.

I loved this one it wasn’t what you’d expect, it wasn’t just a straight forward romance it had different elements throughout it and it was so interesting. I loved the haunting nun that was everywhere as it gave it such a hidden creepiness as you weren’t sure what was going on. I also liked that she grew on her love slowly, it wasn’t instant, she realised over time how much he meant to her.

It was really well transcribed from the original story, an absolutely incredible story to begin with but the way it was transcribed was amazingly well done. It was so enticing and engaging, the characters were easy to into and each added something interesting to the story. Another incredible easy classic to this wonderful series.

[BookwormCat]

No rating.

This is an adaption of Villette by Charlotte Brontë. I can’t rate this since I’ve never read Villette before. It’s been in my TBR list forever but I’m afraid it might be like the St John portions of Jane Eyre.

Perhaps I will revisit this after I read the original Villette.