![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Much like the protagonist in Anita Brookner’s wonderful A Start in Life, Cassandra has raised herself on romantic stories that have influenced her expectations. ![]() Left with nothing, Cassandra relies on her old headmistress to find her a job as a governess at Cropthorne Manor, an old home in the country. When I started the book, I thought, boy, this is perfect! It’s in those first pages that we meet Cassandra Dashwood, who, at age eighteen, has just lost her parents. So I moved to her second novel, Palladian. In fact, when it made that list I realized that I needed to get cracking and read the rest of her work. Her magnificent 1949 novel, A Wreath of Roses, made my recent list of The Best Books I Read in the 2010s. Elizabeth Taylor is in my Pantheon, meaning I intend to read each and every one of her books. ![]()
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