One of the best
Today I was feeling crappy and none of the books I've started lately (3 of them) sounded interesting to me so I picked up one of the books I brought from home this last week. I thought I would tell you about it because it's been awhile since I brought up this author.
Madeleine Brent wrote nine books. This is actually the pen name for Peter O'Donnell but I didn't know this until a couple of years ago. No one knew this fact until 1991 which is a HECK OF A LONG TIME to hold onto a pen name secret.
The very first book I owned was Golden Urchin and I read it until it fell apart. I discovered more of the books at the library and checked them out REPEATEDLY. About that time, I started making money and discovered used book stores. Along with my fascination with all the versions of Little Women (which I own FIVE different covers/publications) and collecting all of the Trixie Belden books, I started looking for Madeleine Brent books. To date, I'm only missing two, The Long Masquerade and A Heritage of Shadows. Here's hoping that I can find those some day.
I started reading Moonraker's Bride tonight. Here is the description from GoodReads, my favorite bookish site.
Born in a Mission in China, Lucy Waring finds herself with fifteen small children to feed and care for. The way she tackles this task leads to her being thrown into the grim prison of Chengfu, where she meets Nicholas Sabine - a man about to die.
He asks her a cryptic riddle, the mystery of which echoes through all that befalls her in the months that follow...
She is brought to England and tries to make a new life with the Gresham family, but she is constantly in disgrace and is soon involved in the bitter feud between the Greshams and a neighbouring family.
There is danger, romance and heartache for Lucy as strange events build to a point where she begins to doubt her own senses.
How could she see a man, long dead, walking in the misty darkness of the valley? And who carried her, unconscious, into the labyrinth of Chiselhurst Caves and left her to die?
It is not until she returns to China that Lucy finds, amid high adventure, the answer to all that has baffled her.
If you have a chance, I would highly recommend picking up one of these books. The story lines never get old and they're as good the tenth time reading them as they are the first.
Madeleine Brent wrote nine books. This is actually the pen name for Peter O'Donnell but I didn't know this until a couple of years ago. No one knew this fact until 1991 which is a HECK OF A LONG TIME to hold onto a pen name secret.
The very first book I owned was Golden Urchin and I read it until it fell apart. I discovered more of the books at the library and checked them out REPEATEDLY. About that time, I started making money and discovered used book stores. Along with my fascination with all the versions of Little Women (which I own FIVE different covers/publications) and collecting all of the Trixie Belden books, I started looking for Madeleine Brent books. To date, I'm only missing two, The Long Masquerade and A Heritage of Shadows. Here's hoping that I can find those some day.
I started reading Moonraker's Bride tonight. Here is the description from GoodReads, my favorite bookish site.
Born in a Mission in China, Lucy Waring finds herself with fifteen small children to feed and care for. The way she tackles this task leads to her being thrown into the grim prison of Chengfu, where she meets Nicholas Sabine - a man about to die.
He asks her a cryptic riddle, the mystery of which echoes through all that befalls her in the months that follow...
She is brought to England and tries to make a new life with the Gresham family, but she is constantly in disgrace and is soon involved in the bitter feud between the Greshams and a neighbouring family.
There is danger, romance and heartache for Lucy as strange events build to a point where she begins to doubt her own senses.
How could she see a man, long dead, walking in the misty darkness of the valley? And who carried her, unconscious, into the labyrinth of Chiselhurst Caves and left her to die?
It is not until she returns to China that Lucy finds, amid high adventure, the answer to all that has baffled her.
If you have a chance, I would highly recommend picking up one of these books. The story lines never get old and they're as good the tenth time reading them as they are the first.