It took me quite a while to stop cringing in dread for what the story was about to become. Not sure, actually, how it avoided that fate.
It actually should have been eye-rolling. Oh, it had all the makings of a standard historical romantic melodrama. It reminds me more of the better Heyer novels, and even of the romantic classicists like the Brontes and Austen, than of the contemporary historical romances. Turns out this historical romance is at least as solid on the historical interest and story suspense, and light on romantic manipulation, as was the late Georgette Heyer. With a hope like that I can also dread being aggravated to the point of abandonment by melodrama, predictability, or general silliness, and that staccato hammering on all the feels, for which I can generally feel nothing better than disappointed. I hoped for a decent light read with minimal fluff. As Amy sets forth on her quest, readers will be swept away by this engrossing gem of a novel-the wonderful debut by newcomer Tracy Rees. In the end, Amy escapes the Vennaways, finds true love, and learns her dearest friend’s secret, a secret that she will protect for the rest of her life.Īn abandoned baby, a treasure hunt, a secret. Ultimately, a life-changing discovery awaits.if only Amy can unlock the secret. From the grave she sends Amy on a treasure hunt from one end of England to the other: a treasure hunt that only Amy can follow. Amy soon receives a packet that contains a rich inheritance and a letter from Aurelia revealing she had kept secrets from Amy, secrets that she wants Amy to know.
When Aurelia dies at the age of twenty-three, she leaves Amy ten pounds, and the Vennaways immediately banish Amy from their home.īut Aurelia left her much more. Amy is brought up as a second-class citizen, despised by Vennaways, but she and Aurelia are as close as sisters. Her parents are horrified that she has brought a bastard foundling into the house, but Aurelia convinces them to keep the baby, whom she names Amy Snow. It is 1831 when eight-year-old Aurelia Vennaway finds a naked baby girl abandoned in the snow on the grounds of her aristocratic family’s magnificent mansion. Winner of the UK’s Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller Competition, this page-turning debut novel follows an orphan whose late, beloved best friend bequeaths her a treasure hunt that leads her all over Victorian England and finally to the one secret her friend never shared.
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