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thisisgettingstupid999 's review for:
Mrs England
by Stacey Halls
“You’re as green as grass, Nurse May.”
Yes, and a fizzing ball of adolescent hormones, all a-twitter in the presence of the local married men and instantly devoted to her charges, even before she’d been with them long enough to get her first pay.
I enjoyed this story overall, but I did find it slow. Ruby’s back story (which, according to the author’s note at at the end, inspired the novel) seemed wholly unnecessary.
Furthermore, there were elements of the story I found difficult to understand.
Hall’s novel “The Foundling” is much better than this one.
Yes, and a fizzing ball of adolescent hormones, all a-twitter in the presence of the local married men and instantly devoted to her charges, even before she’d been with them long enough to get her first pay.
I enjoyed this story overall, but I did find it slow. Ruby’s back story (which, according to the author’s note at at the end, inspired the novel) seemed wholly unnecessary.
Furthermore, there were elements of the story I found difficult to understand.
Spoiler
If Lilian was married to her child’s father, why did she agree to marry Mr England? Wasn’t bigamy illegal? Didn’t her husband (the blacksmith) have anything to say about it?Hall’s novel “The Foundling” is much better than this one.