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Loading... The Ladies of Missalonghiby Colleen McCullough
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Short, charming story of Missy Wright who dares to go after the man she loves. Small town Australia after WWI. (  ) audryh | Mar 21, 2009 |  I didn't really like this book much. It is lacking something. We read this along with "The Blue Castle". This is so similar that we discussed plagiarism. (  )1  shaunnas | Feb 12, 2009 | This was a fun, pleasant short read. I read it in about a day and really enjoyed it. It was one that I thought my younger cousins might like (13 or so) but be warned, there is a bit of sex..about a pg or so at the end. Personally, I could have done with out that and I felt it detracted a little bit from an otherwise nice story - hence the half a star reduction. (  ) hannahj26 | Oct 12, 2008 | 2899 The Ladies of Missalonghi, by Colleen McCullough (read 18 Aug 1996) This is laid in a town in Australia in 1913 and tells how Missy Wright kicks over the traces at age 33 and gets John Smith to marry her and kicks out the corrupt Hurlingford men dominating Byron--a town filled with Byronic names. The house where Mary and her mother and aunt live is named after the town where Byron died. This is a slight tale and really not great literature and I was unmoved by it. I suppose it is well enough written, but I don't think my time reading it was well spent. (  ) Schmerguls | Jan 28, 2008 | This was an entertaining light read, the sort of book you could enjoy after reading a lot of worthier and more literary fiction. It would be pretentious to find fault with the plot or discuss Missy's abrupt change of character. Take it for what it is. It's very short. ( )1 hazelk | Aug 24, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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Sometimes fairy toles can come true-even for plain,shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicianor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to aquiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifullysmall homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But It's a brandnew century-the twentieth-a time for new thoughts and boldnew actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging. Because she hasjust set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted and unsuspectingstranger ... who just might be Prince-Charming in disguise.
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