Clarissa Lovel is a young woman, not quite eighteen, secluded all her life in a strict women's school. Her mother died long ago, her father seems unwilling to know her or have her home even for the holidays, while her brother has quarrelled with their father and left home, nobody seems to know where

This isn’t one of Mrs Braddon’s sensation novels but more of a romance or even a coming-of-age novel but nonetheless an entertaining enough read. In the prim Miss Granger and the self-centred Mr Lovel we find characters who would be at home in an Austen novel but the heroine, Clarissa, although boun

Though I didn't like this novel very much, I couldn't help but going on reading to see how it ended.
It left me a little bit disappointed because usually I love M.E. Braddon's works, but this one was not one of her best ones.
Very thin plot, not so sensational as usually are this author's works, just

Mary Elizabeth Braddon ama cacciare i suoi personaggi femminili in matrimoni senza amore da cui non potranno più uscire; in questo caso, la trappola in cui finisce la povera, giovanissima vittima è ordita, si può dire, da tutte le persone che le sono più care. Che la nostra eroina riesca alla fine i

I'm currently going through Braddon's books, and enjoyed this one. It's in a different style than some of her other more sensational tales, but it still keeps you glued to the page to find out how things work out.

Where other books run on plot twists or vivid characters, this book runs on morals, so