![]() ![]() ![]() Given her difficult past, however, she has a tough time handling the injustices she encounters in her positions and is always let go without a good reference. This former pickpocket was taken off the streets of London and given the Eliza Doolittle treatment by Adorna, Lady Bucknell (a character I’d adored in Rules of Surrender), who runs the Distinguished Academy of Governesses. Miss Samantha Pendregast has just been let go from her umpteenth position as governess. In fact, Dodd included a teeny, tiny nod to Gone With the Wind that had me LOL. And none of my delight has to do with The Sound of Music if I hadn’t read Dodd’s comments that the book is an homage to the movie, I’d never have made that leap myself, singing sisters in color-coordinated frocks aside. I enjoyed this book even more than Jane it’s a DIK for me. And Jane’s reminiscences of the Plummer/Andrews classic as a result of reading My Favorite Bride were so delightful that I bought the book and read it immediately. ![]() Although The Sound of Music is not a favorite movie for me, any time I encounter such enthusiasm and/or remembrances of things past, I’m automatically engaged. But that’s before I read Jane’s review, which you’ll find below mine. I’ve not read Christina Dodd in 2 1/2 years, and, after reading the reviews on her last two books, I had basically written her off. ![]()
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