Flora Trevelyan is a 10-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and indolent parents, and left to wander the streets of a small French town while her parents prepare to depart for life in colonial India. There she befriends the locals, acquires an extensive vocabulary of French foul language, and encounters the privileged lifestyle of the elegant middle-class British families holidaying in 1920s France.
Introduced for the first time to kindly, civilized, and - above all - caring people, Flora falls helplessly and hopelessly in love with not one but three young men. Over the next 40 years, Flora will grow from an awkward schoolgirl into a stunning beauty and explore, consummate, and finally resolve each of these affairs.
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"I love Mary Wesley's books. I read them all in Danish a long time ago. " — Lene (4 out of 5 stars)
"I love Mary Wesley's books. I read them all in Danish a long time ago. "
" So glad I do not live in the 30s in England. "
" Rich writing, really made me feel the story. "
" This novel was a good companion for a trip. At times I forgot I wasn't reading 19th-century literature and came across overt sexual passages that brought me back into the present. "
" Boring and filled with lameness. "
" Little Flora makes friends with holidaymakers, and finds herself falling in love. The book is about her growing up and learning about life. Reassuring if rather too many coincidences, and pleasant enough characters on the whole. "
" Realistic about the choices people make. "
" nothing like The Camomille Lawn... Sloa-paced, slow-moving, slow... Bored me to death, almost didn't finish it. "
" I love Mary Wesley's books. I read them all in Danish a long time ago. "
" not as flowing as the others-post WW I English vacationing in France- a bit stuffy "
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