This is the first book in the Sisters of the Quantock Hills Series. Ruth Elwin Harris began storytelling during the Second World War when she and her brother went to stay with . Avid readers and fans of historical-fiction classics will love these spirited heroines - named "the Little Women of our times" by the TIMES of London - and will be thoroughly absorbed by their intertwining tales, full of feistiness, creativity, and young romance. But with the help of the Mackenzies - their guardian and his family, whom the sisters come to love in very different ways - Sarah, Frances, Julia, and Gwen find the courage to follow their own paths in a world that is rapidly changing. Their mother has died, leaving them orphans in a rambling country estate. A.Four independent-minded sisters come of age in the early 1900s - and four interwoven novels tell their stories, each through a different sister’s eyes.The year is 1910, and the four Purcell sisters have only each other. The Bride of Lammermoor, Sir Walter Scott.
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Downright Dencey, Caroline Dale Snedeker.
The Gray Wolf and other Fantasy Stories, George MacDonald. The Light Princess and other Fantasy Stories, George MacDonald. The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare. The Wise Woman and Other Fantasy Stories, George MacDonald February 25. The Golden Key and Other Fantasy Stories, George MacDonald. Her Father’s Daughter, Gene Stratton-Porter. Under a Changing Moon, Margot Benary-Isbert. The Custom of the Country, Edith Wharton. The Little White Stallion, Elizabeth Goudge. The Massacre at Fall Creek, Jessamyn West. Does anybody keep a list of all the books they read? I'm trying to do it this year, but I'm afraid I've left out a lot of books.Ģ. Do any speed readers here wish they could slow down their reading? I find myself zipping through books so fast that I wish I could slow down a little, to make the love last longer! I think I've done a lot of reading this year.
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