In a way it marks the first of the Armada edits that, to me, make very little sense. Okay, so to the book! Their mama is very ill and her only hope lies to go for the mountain air. Naturally the two girls follow and are enrolled and high-jinks occur and it is great.
It is also SUPER dramatic especially if you get the uncut and goes to some quite big places and some quite intense moments. What I also really enjoyed is how EBD writes her adults here. View all my reviews. We have genuine emotion and genuine heart in the tale of Miss Annersley returning to the fold, and then we have have [spoiler] pouring a ton of olive oil on her head.
What a series. The weather was thick and hot and dense; that still, heavy air that is just hot and nothing else, and what else should one do on such days but read a gentle book like this? This is not a book for new readers already a trait of this series β you either sink or swim when we get onto the fifteenth description of floral curtains but it is a book for readers.
Brent-Dyer is comfortable here and strong and her life work has not laid heavy on her yet and the Tiernsee is still the brightest and bluest lake in all of Austria and all is so good and so gentle and so right. For a while, and most specifically in these early books, Brent-Dyer is breathtakingly good.
Everybody knows everybody else so well and the web that connects these characters is so genuine and true. I had been put off by the first few chapters because they were tight and dense things, unwilling to let me in and, I suspect, not really caring to be read.
