{"id":389,"date":"2015-12-07T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/07\/the-misses-mallett-by-e-h-young\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T17:15:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:15:54","slug":"the-misses-mallett-by-e-h-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/07\/the-misses-mallett-by-e-h-young\/","title":{"rendered":"The Misses Mallett by E. H. Young"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0Misses Mallett<\/i>\u00a0is the story of two sisters, Caroline and Sophia, their half-sister, Rose, and their niece, Henrietta, who comes to live with them upon the death of her mother. \u00a0They live in the town of Radstowe and queen it over local society. \u00a0Caroline, in particular, likes to reminisce about all her conquests but she never lets the rest of her family forget that “Malletts don’t marry.”<\/p>\n

Rose, leading an unfulfilled life, falls in love with a man who has a crippled wife. \u00a0The love is never acted upon but the wife knows and is bitterly jealous. \u00a0The arrival of Henrietta seems to be a bit of a catalyst in all of the character’s lives. \u00a0She brings new life to the older sisters and shakes up the relationships and lives of those around her. \u00a0Henrietta herself seems very immature and lives in a bit of a fantasy world. \u00a0She dramatizes herself into being in love with the same man as Rose which leads to all sorts of emotional complications.<\/p>\n

I really enjoy the way Young develops her characters. \u00a0They are quirky and interesting and flawed. \u00a0I don’t have much patience for a perfect heroine. \u00a0There are no perfect people in the world so don’t give them to me in books. \u00a0All the characters had unlikable characteristics but their motivations and feelings were so clear that I sympathized with them. \u00a0They were complete characters with strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n

A novel about small-town life and a group of single woman leading simple lives could sound like a cozy read but that isn’t what this is. \u00a0The emotions, interactions, and introspective thoughts make it slightly unsettling at times, maybe because her flawed characters awaken us to the flaws in ourselves.<\/p>\n

This was just the kind of book I enjoy. \u00a0I want to visit Radstowe now. \u00a0I was told that it is based on Bristol. \u00a0The writing was very evocative of a time and place. \u00a0I always appreciate books with good character development. \u00a0The older I get the less I care about the plot and the more I care about the people.<\/p>\n

I have read a few other of Young’s books. \u00a0I hear good things about Miss Mole<\/i>. \u00a0I will have to find a copy of that next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Misses Mallett\u00a0is the story of two sisters, Caroline and Sophia, their half-sister, Rose, and their niece, Henrietta, who comes to live with them upon the death of her mother. \u00a0They live in the town of Radstowe and queen it over local society. \u00a0Caroline, in particular, likes to reminisce about all her conquests but she never lets the rest of her family forget that “Malletts don’t marry.” Rose, leading an unfulfilled life, falls in love with a man who has a crippled wife. \u00a0The love is never acted upon but the wife knows and is bitterly jealous. \u00a0The arrival of Henrietta seems to be a bit of a catalyst in all of the character’s lives. \u00a0She brings new life to the older sisters and shakes up the relationships and lives of those around her. \u00a0Henrietta herself seems very immature and lives in a bit of a fantasy world. \u00a0She dramatizes herself into being in love with the same man as Rose which leads to all sorts of emotional complications. I really enjoy the way Young develops her characters. \u00a0They are quirky and interesting and flawed. \u00a0I don’t have much patience for a perfect heroine. \u00a0There are no perfect people in the world so don’t give them to me in books. \u00a0All the characters had unlikable characteristics but their motivations and feelings were so clear that I sympathized with them. \u00a0They were complete characters with strengths and weaknesses. A novel about small-town life and a group of single woman leading simple lives could sound like a cozy read but that isn’t what this is. \u00a0The emotions, interactions, and introspective thoughts make it slightly unsettling at times, maybe because her flawed characters awaken us to the flaws in ourselves. This was just the kind of book I enjoy. \u00a0I want to visit Radstowe now. \u00a0I was told that it is based on Bristol. \u00a0The writing was very evocative of a time and place. \u00a0I always appreciate books with good character development. \u00a0The older I get the less I care about the plot and the more I care about the people. I have read a few other of Young’s books. \u00a0I hear good things about Miss Mole. \u00a0I will have to find a copy of that next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,42,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-e-h-young","category-review"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2903,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/2903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}