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Miss Granby's Secret: or The Bastard of Pinsk
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.99
ISBN13: 9781915393920
Publisher: Dean Street Press
Published: Aug 5 2024
Pages: 340
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
How much did Aunt Addie know?
How much did she feel?
Aunt Addie better known to the world at large as Adelaide Granby, the fabulously successful author of 49 volumes of gushing, melodramatic Victorian romance. Upon her death in 1912, flowers and cards pour in, including one particularly lavish set From Stanislaw, whom her independent-minded, suffragette niece Pamela decides was darling Aunt Addie's Grande Passion. Pamela also inherits a stack of Aunt Addie's secret papers, including youthful diaries and her unintentionally hilarious unpublished first novel, written when she was only 16, entitled The Bastard of Pinsk (a bastard, 16-year-old Adelaide was sure, being A very noble Hero of Royal Blood.)
As Pamela explores these documents and talks with those who knew her aunt when, seeking the real-life source of her romantic sensibility, the reader is drawn irresistibly into the intrigue. In a novel both sentimental and brutally honest, nostalgic for and horrified by the sentiments of the past, hilarious and poignant, all at once, the brilliant Eleanor Farjeon poses surprisingly powerful questions about what makes a love real and how much one really needs to know to experience it...
This new edition features a superb introduction by twentieth-century women's historian Elizabeth Crawford.
Naughtiness of a definitely mauve tint. Beatrice Sherman, New York Times
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