Cassandra’s grandmother Nell has just died and Cassandra is lost and alone. An unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell changes Cassandra’s life. Everything she thought she knew about her family is incorrect and the only thing pointing her in the right direction is a book of fairytales written by the mysterious, English, Victorian authoress Eliza Makepeace who disappeared in the early twentieth century. Cassandra sets out to find out more about Mrs Makepeace and her grandmother in England.
This is the second book by Kate Morton I’ve read and I really enjoyed this one. Nell’s story is incredibly heartbreaking: until her engagement party she’s led to believe she’s the child of an Australian couple. At the party, her father tells her she’s not their biological child, and that she was found on the docks with her little suitcase the day a ship from England arrived in Australia.
Read for the ShelfReflection Reading Challenge 2024.
Prompt 34: A book with trees on the cover.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
