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Cargando... Peter and Paul (1940)por Susan Scarlett
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It is not fun being the plain one of the family. But being the plain one of twins is a wretched position. That's why parables about grains of mustard seed, which grew up and startled everybody by their magnificence, did Pauline good.Petronella and Pauline Lane are 17-year-old twins, but not identical. "Peter", kind but utterly self-absorbed, is ravishingly beautiful while "Paul"-practical, sensitive, and loved by all-tends to slip through the cracks. Their father is the local vicar ("so much of a saint that if he wasn't a great dear he'd be a prig"), but malleable in their mother's hands, so that she (with an eye for getting them married) is able to arrange for the girls to work in a London dress shop run by David, son of local aristocracy in the unforgettable form of Lady Bliss. However, David's dishonest, fortune-hunting manageress is anything but pleased by their arrival, especially when Peter becomes the inspiration for David's new designs, and sets about to rid herself of them. Her machinations and their unpredictable results, unfolding amid fascinating details about the workings of a dress shop, make for a funny, sweet, and irresistible concoction.Peter and Paul, first published in 1940, is the third of twelve charming, page-turning romances published under the pseudonym "Susan Scarlett" by none other than beloved children's author and novelist Noel Streatfeild. Out of print for decades, they were rediscovered by Greyladies Books in the early 2010s, and Dean Street Press and Furrowed Middlebrow are delighted now to make all twelve available to a wider audience."A writer who shows a rich experience in her writing and a charm" Nottingham Journal. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Which one will the owner of the shop fall in love with? Which one should he fall in love with? Meanwhile, how will the conniving manageress of the shop jealously try to manipulate everybody so that she can marry the boss? There aren't really any surprises here.
As with the other Susan Scarlett books I've read, this was an amusing little romp, but I wouldn't start with this one if you haven't read any others. It feels more blatant than in some of the other books that these are extremely young girls. Different times? For sure. The idea of being married by 18 (or before?!) wasn't seen as too surprising, I guess, and I tried to bear that in mind, even while modern me winced at some of the interactions.
What I enjoyed about this one was the shop itself and the little community that it represents. The romance in this one was kind of a miss, though.
Oh - and the ending? It just kind of stops... it wasn't properly wrapped up at all. Weird. ( )