The heroines by eileen favorite7/3/2023 Narrated by the courageous and irreverent Penny, The Heroines will make book lovers rejoice. These visitors long for comfort, consolation, and sometimes for more attention than the adolescent Penny wants her mother to give.Įileen Favorite's lively, fresh, and enormously entertaining novel gives readers a chance to experience their favorite Heroines all over again, or introduces these fictional women so beguilingly that further acquaintance will surely follow. A lovesick Madame Bovary languishes in their hammock after Rodolphe has abandoned her, and Scarlett O'Hara's emotions are not easily tempered by tea and eiderdowns. They appear at all hours of the day and in all manners of distress. On a picturesque acreage near Prairie Bluff, Ill., 13-year-old Penny Entwistle, and her. I thought you might be interested in this item at Title: The heroines Author: Eileen Favorite Publisher: London : Hutchinson, 2008. In this enchanting debut novel, Penny and her mother encounter great women from classic works of literature who make the Homestead their destination of choice just as the plots of their tumultuous, unforgettable stories begin to unravel. Scribner, 24 (233pp) ISBN 978-1-4165-4810-2. These novels, devoted to the lives of the Heroines that make them so irresistible, have a way of hitting too close to home - well, to the Homestead actually, where Anne-Marie runs the quaint family-owned bed and breakfast. Although a true lover of books, Anne-Marie Entwhistle prefers not to read to her spirited daughter, Penny, especially from the likes of Madame Bovary, Gone With the Wind, or The Scarlet Letter.
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