Kitty
Howcome I missed this book when it came out? What absolute joy! So witty and charming, such interesting characters, and the feminist theme so lovingly wrapped in story. Elizabeth is a bit of an anachronism, although we have known women who put their career/intellectual pursuits first in the 1950s. The Elizabeth-Mad-Harriet combo is also really good. They all learn from each other - well except daughter Mad, who is perfect from birth ;-)
Its beginning is the best. Of course it loses some steam later on. Regardless, I could not put it down, needing to know its ending. Needing to know how these nice people will fare.
A wonderful fairy tale, with nerdism or autism thrown in but in a good way. Elizabeth turns out to have been right all along - and is helped by mainly women.
As a former rower, that theme was also hilarious.
Howcome I missed this book when it came out? What absolute joy! So witty and charming, such interesting characters, and the feminist theme so lovingly wrapped in story. Elizabeth is a bit of an anachronism, although we have known women who put their career/intellectual pursuits first in the 1950s. The Elizabeth-Mad-Harriet combo is also really good. They all learn from each other - well except daughter Mad, who is perfect from birth ;-)
Its beginning is the best. Of course it loses some steam later on. Regardless, I could not put it down, needing to know its ending. Needing to know how these nice people will fare.
A wonderful fairy tale, with nerdism or autism thrown in but in a good way. Elizabeth turns out to have been right all along - and is helped by mainly women.
As a former rower, that theme was also hilarious.