Of course for me, accurate research is a must when I am reading about a specific period in history and my first thoughts were that Rebecca and her friends might have appeared a little too progressive for the Victorian setting of the storyline. Beginning of course with that haunting and wistful cover art, which almost sets the scene alone, without the need for words. Period historical romance isn’t a genre I could read too often, but every once in a while, a book such as this one will come along, which just grabs my attention and then I’m hooked. What a lovely debut novel and a wonderfully enjoyable few hours of immersive escapism, into a sweet, yet heart-wrenching and rather melancholic story, narrated totally in the first person by Rebecca herself, beautifully simply and poignantly told.
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