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Apr 16, 2014GLNovak rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Cassandra is seventeen and although living in abject poverty in a crumbling castle with no income of any obvious kind, other than the pittance that Stephen brings in, is seemingly loving her life. I read somewhere that it was in the same vein as Glass Castles by Jeanette Wall, and in some ways it is. This is completely fiction set in rural southern England in the 1940's while Wall's is her biography of growing up in the Virginia Appalatian Mts of the 1960's. I found the fiction narrative to be a little too cute and bubbly for my taste but that could be the result of the time period of the writing. Certainly all ends well in both. They are uplifing stories of hardship not dampening the spirit or holding back ambition. A little too sweetly amazing for me to give a higher rating.