Like in many wealthy American households of the time, it's the lady of the house who is in charge of the servants. Mrs. Lowell is fair and smart, running her house like a business. Margery Cabot Edwards, on the other hand, is a snobby, spoiled rich girl, more than happy to treat all of her household help like dirt. But her maltreatment is a catalyst to get Ceilidh to find work elsewhere, with the Lowells.
The inspirational song for this book is Bastille's Pompeii. Years later, and I am still incapable of hearing the song without thinking of the book, and vice versa.
Like other characters named Shapiro, Marnie is a callback across universes. Her middle name, Robin, ties in with Robin McKenna, a pivotal character in the Time Addicts series. Marnie is also a Bostonian, although I don't outline that well enough.
Time Addicts – Everything is Up For Grabs - finally finished this one, from November 2021. What happens when the timelines change every day, and sometimes more than once per day? Chaos reigns as Josie, Dalton, Carmen, Keisha, and the others have to unravel what's happening and defeat a force known only as Zero.
Frances has main advantages: a pleasant voice and demeanor, a high class-sounding accent to Mrs. Edwards, and a willingness to work hard.
Consider Elise Jeffries, One of My Original Characters Who is Elise Jeffries? She sprang, semi-formed, when I […]
Unless the reader can immediately infer who's speaking, they might start reading, thinking it's John who's talking. But then they get to the end and, oops, it's really Mary declaring her love of dairy products.
Consider Ixalla, One of My Original Characters Who is Ixalla? When I first started to write Untrustworthy, […]
The characters are the unnamed narrator and the 'people' she meets. Some are human. Others? Not so much.
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