OLDER FICTION
(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.

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