Book description
Centers around the weekend party that Alice Barton, a shy young English girl, attends at Pomfret Towers, the magnificent seventeenth century home of Lord Pomfret
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I love this book because, like Alice Barton, the novel's heroine, I was a hideously shy child and so sympathise enormously with her predicaments during the story. As we follow Alice on her weekend away to a house-party hosted by her mother's friends Lord and Lady Pomfret in their stately home, Pomfret Towers, we share Alice's fear of strangers, relief at meeting friendship from her contemporary Phoebe Rivers and the elder Lady Pomfret, and consternation when the parcel she brought with her and, later, her shoes vanish -- the servants have them safe, but however is she to get them…
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