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321 pp.
| Dial |
June, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-0-525-42865-7$16.99
(2)
YA
Twelve-year-old Martha O'Doyle, a maid in the Sewell mansion, learns Mr. Sewell's dark secret: his formerly headstrong socialite wife is hidden on the mansion's top floor, apparently both physically and mentally ill. Fitzgerald's interest in art and history inform this puzzle of a novel, with Jane Eyre, Sacco and Vanzetti, the dying art of vaudeville, chemistry, and the 1929 stock market crashes all playing roles.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2016