The Bell family lives in a vicarage in London. With a reverend's salary, the parents need to become creative when it comes to purchasing food, clothing, and booking a vacation. What they lack in material wealth, they are rich in escapades. Each child contributes to the excitement-Paul who wants to be a doctor must deal with pressure from a grandfather to abandon his dream and join the family business, Jane who longs to be a professional dancer but must attend a charity school, Ginnie says whatever is on her mind and is disciplined the most often, and Angus collects catepillars in matchboxes.
An entertaining story I enjoyed every minute! Some awesome adult characters
British writing does not utilize commas like Americans. I had to adjust to this writing style. Also, sometimes her sentence structures were different, which caused me to reread.
Warning/discuss: keeping secrets from each other (eventually each character comes clean), the word ass is used a few times (I don't think that is a curse word in Great Britain).
*Highly recommend, especially for readers who love realistic fiction, character development, & stories about large, boisterious families.
-Borrowed via ILL
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