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401 pp.
| Viking
| March, 2016
|
TradeISBN 978-0-451-47411-7$18.99
(3)
YA
In 1861, Elodie's plant-growing talent, impertinent interest in Darwin, and determination to keep her eight sisters from financial humiliation leads her to accompany her struggling plant-hunter father to China in search of rare orchids. Adventure, romance, and friendship temper the journey's hardships. Waller builds engrossing fiction on a firm historical skeleton (notes appended), from England's Kew Gardens to the Opium Wars in China.
431 pp.
| Viking
| January, 2014
|
TradeISBN 978-0-670-01468-2$17.99
(3)
YA
Victoria's dream of becoming an artist leads her naively into scandals, tempts her into a convenient marriage, and drives her to join the Women's Social and Political Union. Persistence eventually triumphs, and friendships, love, and art lessons are her rewards. Sound historical research provides the backbone for this warm novel about the development of women's opportunities in Edwardian London. Historical notes are appended. Bib.