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YA
Sent to live with four English cousins on their farm, fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy is smitten with the pastoral beauty around her, but especially with her cousin Edmond. Their idyllic love is interrupted when an (unnamed) enemy power invades the country. This first novel is intelligent, funny, serious, and sweet; a winning combination of acerbic commentary, innocence, and sober vision.
Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2004