This is a less known, but not less beautiful, novel by the author of The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, The Lost Prince, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Shuttle, and many more. There is something different about miss Lysbeth Crespigny. Raised by three maiden aunts and sheltered from the world, she leaves them for the first time in order to explore the world. Yet she is often misunderstood. The world she discovers is more complicated and confusing then she anticipates. She is only 18 when the book starts. However the choices she has to make have consequences which she learns to navigate and become the strong woman she can be. - Summary by Stav Nisser.
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
CHAPTER I. Lisbeth
14:24 - Chapter 2
CHAPTER II. Another Gentleman of the Same Name
14:43 - Chapter 3
CHAPTER III. Pansies for Thought
17:18 - Chapter 4
CHAPTER IV. A Lunch Party
15:57 - Chapter 5
CHAPTER V. Georgie Esmond
11:52 - Chapter 6
CHAPTER VI. A Song
12:01 - Chapter 7
CHAPTER VII. A New Experience
13:29 - Chapter 8
CHAPTER VIII. I Will Tell You the Truth for Once
10:05 - Chapter 9
CHAPTER IX. We Must Always be True
09:54 - Chapter 10
CHAPTER X. Pen’yllan
13:31 - Chapter 11
CHAPTER XI. A Confession
15:34 - Chapter 12
CHAPTER XII. A Visitor
13:03 - Chapter 13
CHAPTER XIII. A Ghost
14:43 - Chapter 14
CHAPTER XIV. It Might Have Been Very Sweet
14:09 - Chapter 15
CHAPTER XV. We Won’t Go Yet
11:43 - Chapter 16
CHAPTER XVI. Yes—to Lisbeth
16:02 - Chapter 17
CHAPTER XVII. Good-bye
20:26 - Chapter 18
CHAPTER XVIII. You Think I Have a Secret
15:54 - Chapter 19
CHAPTER XIX. And That was the End of it
16:25