She longs to break away from her boring existence as a children's governess and live the exciting life of one of the heroines in her favourite books. I enjoyed reading this book, but it was not a page turner or shocking in its content like Lady Audley`s Secret, which I rated 5 stars. Braddon was the queen of Victorian sensation novels, like Lady Audley's Secret; although the heroine falls in love with a man who's not her husband, The Doctor's Wife isn't really a sensation novel. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. The Island of Doctor Moreau : and other unsettling tales. I know it's detrimental to my character to read these sentimental novels, but I can't help it- they're just so good! As she disappeared from sight, the center seam of her kimono below the sash was still absolutely straight. But a certain grandma wants to straighten him out! This is an excellent book and the wife of a doctor and her struggles with doctoring life at the finest and most precise level. If I were giving the rating based on how much I empathized and sympathized with Isabel, the doctor's wife, I would have to find a way to give negative stars. The Way We Live Now (Oxford World's Classics), Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Pratchett's Women: Unauthorised Essays on Female Characters of the Discworld, The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics). As her slender fingers gently rubbed the beads, the young girl could not help thinking that beautiful people were just born beautiful--from head to toe. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. She longs to break away from her boring existence as a children's governess and live the exciting life of one of the heroines in her favourite books. In the course of the plot, she used many-MANY a reference to what I assume are characters from 18th Century ''classic'' novels or writings, of which I'm not familiar. Read by Kirsten Wever.
He's in love with the wrong twin.
Another Braddon that we read for Jennifer's class. In the course of the plot, she used many-MANY a reference to what I assume are characters from 18th Century ''classic'' novels or writings, of which I'm not familiar. I expected a bit of a pot-boiler. This novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, written in 1864, is an interesting novel, or actually an interesting group of novels. I cannot help but think that this novel would have greatly benefited if the author had reduced the number of pages by half.
Kae had been standing somewhat apart from her relatives and did not expect to be noticed.
When parish doctor George Gilbert proposes to her, she accepts but quickly finds that her marriage isn't providing the drama and adventure she's been dreaming of.
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