Margery Sharp
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A Jazz Age socialite impulsively adopts an orphaned boy in this humorous, heartwarming tale from New York Times–bestselling author Margery Sharp In 1929 London, twenty-eight-year-old Lesley Frewen lives a privileged, cultured life. But one thing is missing: love. When her aunt's female companion dies suddenly, leaving behind a young son, Lesley decides on a whim to adopt four-year-old Patrick-which is odd, because she doesn't have any particular...
2) Cluny Brown
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Español
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Año 1938. Arnold Porritt, un próspero fontanero londinense, ya no sabe qué hacer con las extravagancias de su sobrina Cluny. Después de frecuentar el Ritz como una gran señora y de dejarse seducir alegremente por un cliente, su tío decide mandarla como sirvienta a Friars Carmel, una encantadora mansión campestre.
Allí la esperan, entre otros, lady Carmel, su patrona, siempre metida entre sus flores; su hijo Andrew, que acaba de traerse de...
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Set in 1930s France, Margery Sharp's witty, warm-hearted novel tells the story of a free-spirited mother who is reunited with her very proper daughter after sixteen years, when her daughter asks her to inspect her fiancé Julia Packett has barely laid eyes on her daughter, Susan, since leaving her with her proper, well-heeled in-laws after her husband was killed in World War I. Now thirty-seven, her lack of prospects hasn't dimmed her spirit or appetite...