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Feb 05, 2014 01:28PM
Years ago I read the first one or two of a series of books about several young people who lived across a sort of quadrangle or park from one another. It was set in England and written by a British woman. Somehow I lost the book I was reading, I think the second of the series, and never could recall the name of the books or the author although it has tugged on my memory ever since. I know this is not a lot of information. I believe there were 4 main characters, 2 male and 2 female and by now I don't even recall why I found it so compelling. But it has always bothered me and now perhaps someone can help.
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Adding to Lobstergirl's questions--was this a historical--and, if so, what era?
Hillary, were these children's books, YA, or for adults?
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CLM wrote: "I remember reading this series long ago: Soho Square"I never saw this until now. Thank you so much for solving my mystery! This is amazing. I am so grateful. I will read it at last.
Sadly this is NOT the book(s) I was looking for. The book I read did not involve actors and at the point that they all lived across the Square it was the first book of what I think was a four book story. Alas, I continue to wonder. Thank you nonetheless for your suggestion.
And yes it was historical as I recall. But not sure of the era. Post Henry James I would say based on the freedom of the characters, but not by that much.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Hillary, are you still looking for this book/series?"So not so solved after all and what I can add after being asked by a librarian is: Set in the past but not distant past as the characters had the freedom to come and go without supervision. The title of the first book was the name of the park or square or quadrangle. It was in a major city like London or Sydney and at least some of the main characters were fairly wealthy. The first name of the author May possibly be Eleanor but that may be specious. It was a very psychological series with some looks into the interiors of the main characters and their motives and in this way reminiscent of Henry James but not as heavy or endlessly descriptive.
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Lobstergirl wrote: "Ok. Deleted "Soho Square.""Also, the characters live with their families, at least some grew up there, and there is a pair of siblings or old friends or possibly both but not everyone knew one another before the start of the book. While I recall a series of 4 books there may only really be only 2 or 3
Oh, too bad! I feel like I should know this series.
Here is a list with addresses and street names in book titles: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
What a brilliant idea! I am giving second thoughts to the Soho Square series. Wondering if it actually is the one I started.
But also think I should search for square, quadrangle, etc. Did you just do your search on google? If not, can you tell me how you did it?
It's one of the Listopia lists here on Goodreads that users can create. There are thousands of lists for every topic you can imagine. The listopia main page is here: https://www.goodreads.com/listYou can also enter a search term in the search field; I did a search for "address".
I hope someone is ale to recall such a series ,because I LOVE Brit-Lit and this sounds interesting !
How many years ago did you read this?Anything about the cover?
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