Millie W. reviewed on + 75 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I decided to order this book because of the top reviews it received - "a romp", "a swoon of a novel" - and discovered that to me it is neither of those. It is instead an extremely well written but depressing and somewhat horrifying history of the short life of a young woman in 18th century England. I love historical novels and this is a good one, and I'm sure quite factual, but the details of the daily life of the young teen thrown out by her parents to live on her own are sordid. I finished reading it, but I can't say I really enjoyed it.
