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Mixed Blessings
Upon her mother's death in 1902, twenty-one-year-old Alfreda Esmond turns the family home into a boarding house that attracts a highly eccentric collection of boarders
- GenresFictionHistorical
250 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 1978
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Marian Cockrell
13 books8 followersMarian Cockrell was a talented screenwriter as well as novelist, best known for the enchanting Shadow Castle.
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March 31, 2011
This is such a charming book. It would be a great movie. The characters a marvelous. Truly a lovely book.
July 3, 2018
So cute!!!
May 8, 2017
I see everyone who has read this loved it. Well, The Revolt of Sarah Perkins is one of my favorite books from my youth, I recently re-read it and it still held up. I had never found another of Marian Cockrell's books before, and got this one online. It was a perfectly nice little story, but I never really engaged with it for some reason. It had a hint here and there of the wit of "Sarah" but the story was just very predictable. A Perky Young Woman in 1902 is left in financial straits after the death of her mother, and is forced to turn her home into a boarding house. Cue the eccentric motley crew of boarders. Cue a perfect man to eventually "save" her from having to have boarders....wait... PYW already HAS a rich, charming, handsome boyfriend, but....he is...wishy-washy! That means a more perfect man is due, and sure enough...here he comes, cue crisis with the boyfriend...etc. etc. Ho hum. I would have probably loved this when I was 14.
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