The year is 1922 and Mary Lavelle, an Irish girl of great beauty, leaves her family and fiance to become a governess in Spain. Little by little, Mary loses her heart to the landscape, the light, the enchantment of Spain. And when she meets Juanito, the brilliant but married son of the household, she loses her heart to him too.
An Amazon.com reader says - A terrific coming of age novel. This amazing pre-war coming of age novel has also been re-released as "Talk of Angels : A Novel." The novel is terrific -- the prose style is flawless, and the interior life of the heroine complex but plausible. O'Brien specializes in describing the emotional whirlpool at the center of the transformative moments of her characters' lives, and this book is, I think, her best.
An Amazon.com reader says - A terrific coming of age novel. This amazing pre-war coming of age novel has also been re-released as "Talk of Angels : A Novel." The novel is terrific -- the prose style is flawless, and the interior life of the heroine complex but plausible. O'Brien specializes in describing the emotional whirlpool at the center of the transformative moments of her characters' lives, and this book is, I think, her best.
