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Loading... The Brontes Went to Woolworths: A Novel (The Bloomsbury Group) (original 1931; edition 2010)by Rachel Ferguson (Author)
Work InformationThe Brontes Went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson (1931)
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) Alishadt | Feb 25, 2023 |  This is a story about a very offbeat but close knit family. I think when most people are kids they make up stories about people, maybe some are imaginary and some are real people you see in passing and imagine the lives of. I did this as a little kid sometimes, but not as an adult. So, that's something you're either going to find charming or odd about these characters. They are all creative types, oldest sister Deidre is a writer and middle sister Katrine is an actress. They are both in their twenties. They, along with their mother, tell little stories to the youngest, eleven year old Sheil. Many of their stories are about "Toddy". They kind of see him as a bit of a celebrity. He features in their stories a lot, including fictional phone calls every night. But one day Deidre actually meets "Toddy". What began as an almost fictionalized character in her life is now a very real man. When "Toddy" meets the rest of the family, it could unravel their little storybook world or if could enrich it. (  ) Mishale1 | Dec 29, 2018 | Review written in 2008 (  )2  laytonwoman3rd | Jun 2, 2016 | Deirdre (a journalist), Katrine (an actress-in-training), Sheil (their eleven year old sister) and their mother have a habit of talking, amongst themselves, as if they were closely acquainted with people who they have never met. They tell each other stories about these supposed-friends, about what their friends do and say, and it is very confusing for Sheil's poor governess. And the reader, who has to read between the lines to distinguish between reality and fantasy. And then it becomes confusing for the Carne family, once they actually become acquainted with some of their previously-imaginary friends. Not quite what I was expecting, but I was glad I read it, if only because it was so very different from everything else. A woman at one of mother's parties once said to me, "Do you like reading?" which smote us all to silence, for how could one tell her that books are like having a bath, or sleeping, or eating bread - absolute necessities which one never thinks of in terms of appreciation. (  )1 Herenya | Mar 31, 2016 |  )1 wealhtheowwylfing | Feb 29, 2016 | no reviews | add a review
'How I loathe that kind of novel which is about a lot of sisters'; so proclaims Deirdre at the beginning of The Brontes Went to Woolworths, one of three sisters. London, 1931. As growing up looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable appetite for the fantastic. Eldest sister Deirdre is a journalist, Katrine a fledgling actress and young Sheil is still with her governess; together they live a life unchecked by their mother in their bohemian town house. Irrepressibly imaginative, the sisters cannot resist making up stories as they have done since childhood; from their talking nursery toys, Ironface the Doll and Dion Saffyn the pierrot, to their fulsomely-imagined friendship with real high-court Judge Toddington who, since Mrs Carne did jury duty, they affectionately called Toddy. However, when Deirdre meets Toddy's real-life wife at a charity bazaar, the sisters are forced to confront the subject of their imaginings. Will the sisters cast off the fantasies of childhood forever? Will Toddy and his wife, Lady Mildred, accept these charmingly eccentric girls? And when fancy and reality collide, who can tell whether Ironface can really talk, whether Judge Toddington truly wears lavender silk pyjamas or whether the Brontes did indeed go to Woolworths? The Brontes Went to Woolworths is part of The Bloomsbury Group, a new library of books from the early twentieth-century chosen by readers for readers. No library descriptions found. 
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 Google Books — Loading...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.912Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945LC ClassificationRatingAverage: (3.69)
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