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It is 1886, 18-year-old Violet Hamilton says goodbye to her mother as she head off a party on Hastings Pier to never been seen again. First, it was able to take hundreds of years of history and put it together in a way that was not overwhelming with billions of factoids. It's mostly about Violet's picaresque hijinks around Hastings as she gets a job, finds her spine, has various comedy enncounters and falls in love, interspersed with really quite unpleasant sexual aggression from a variety of men, plus her massive sexual trauma and abandonment inflicted by her mother. She isn’t your typical Victorian woman, going against social conventions by not wanting to get married and pursuing a career instead.
Discretely hiring a private detective is the first step but there is something about Frank Knight and his interest in her mother that Violet finds disturbing. The one thing that kept me reading was a slight curiosity as to the disappearance of Violet's mother. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.There are ladies who don’t like what they are made for, the cleaning and the domestic business, the caring and the mothering. When Violet decides to hire a detective, she sets in motion a chain of unforeseen events that spell disaster on one hand, but also push Violet to becoming a sleuth herself. More than anything else about what she has written about, that is the thing that is most unique to her time. Finally, Violet is trying to decide if her decade-long determination to remain a spinster has been more fuelled by fear than her inability to fall in love.
With Blackthorn, she is able to partly live her dream of being a Lady Detective (not quite so easy for a woman in 1896! What people wore, what was popular at the time, how the streets and towns used to look like, what were people’s main professions, and most importantly, what were the women’s roles in society at this point in time. Which, in 1896, can make things a little complicated… At 28, Violet’s father is beginning to worry she will never find a husband. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives.The knowledge came crashing over me on that mundane walk home, with the force of a giant wave, that I wanted nothing more in the whole wide world than to be a Lady Detective. With her story are countless stories of life on the ranch, people who came in and out of her life, and the growth of the area, from horses and wagons and buggies, to the first of the cars to come to the area. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Loved hearing about a woman riding horseback all over the New Mexico territory—8 years old and riding 20 miles alone to get the mail and bear hunting on horseback as an adult. All are in a simple no nonsense style reflecting the fact that this was life as it was and accepted as such.
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