Miss Granby's Secret: or The Bastard of Pinsk
by Eleanor Farjeon
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How much did Aunt Addie know? How much did she feel? Aunt Addie better known to the world at large as Adelaide Granby, the fabulously successful author of 49 volumes of gushing, melodramatic Victorian romance. Upon her death in 1912, flowers and cards pour in, including one particularly lavish set "From Stanislaw", whom her independent-minded, suffragette niece Pamela decides was "darling Aunt Addie's Grande Passion." Pamela also inherits a stack of Aunt Addie's secret papers, show more including youthful diaries and her unintentionally hilarious unpublished first novel, written when she was only 16, entitled The Bastard of Pinsk (a "bastard", 16-year-old Adelaide was sure, being "A very noble Hero of Royal Blood.") As Pamela explores these documents and talks with those who knew her aunt when, seeking the real-life source of her romantic sensibility, the reader is drawn irresistibly into the intrigue. In a novel both sentimental and brutally honest, nostalgic for and horrified by the sen... show lessTags
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nessreader Young V is a bodice-ripper romance written by a child. Miss G's Secret is a Russian doll of a book, the core of which is a bodice ripper romance, the bastard of pinsk,very funny, by a terrifyingly innocent 16 yr old miss Granby. The outer shells framing b of p are the miss granby's death, legacy and the story of her great niece's half hearted effort to find out the TRUTH.
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