Mrs England: The award-winning Sunday Times bestseller from the winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award

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An eerie, dangerous landscape, a wealthy family, a children’s nurse, a controlling husband, and characters with secrets greet us in this delicious, Gothic novel. Doamna England” m-a atras de cum i-am văzut coperta și nu a dezamăgit! Aș fi vrut poate mai mult în anumite locuri, dar tot este un titlu pe care-l recomand cititorilor de ficțiune istorică și mystery! Her first position did not last long because she couldn't leave England for America with this family. The school found her another position at the remote Hardcastle House taking care of the four children of Mr. and Mrs. England.

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This is one of the most magical and atmospheric novels I have had the pleasure of reading in some time.Overall, I have to say the reason why I’m giving Mrs. England three stars is because of the author’s writing skill. If the quality of the writing had been a little worse, I would have stopped reading this story a long time ago. With her previous two novels, The Familiars and The Foundling, Stacey Halls proved that she’s an author with a unique talent for writing engrossing and atmospheric historical fiction centered around female protagonists haunted by complicated pasts. With the bar set so high, it’s always a worry that the next book an author writes won’t live up to the early successes of its predecessors. Happily, that couldn’t be further from the truth with Mrs England, which opens with an intriguing flash-forward, before unravelling the events that lead Ruby to that moment.

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The book is called Mrs England but in reality, this is the story about 2 women. We follow their present whilst their disturbing stories becomes apparent as both women grow from under their subversive and controlling past (and present). A regény a 19-20. század fordulóján, a vidéki Anglia szövettermő gyárvidékére visz bennünket, de az ottani textilgyári munkások élete helyett, a polgári gazdag családok, önmagába zárt rendszerébe nyerhetünk bepillantást, a szolgálólét peremén álló May Dadus szemszögéből. Az új szolgálati helyen, Yorkshire-ben Ruby May, egy négygyermekes, jómódú családnál kap nevelőnői állást, és a kezdeti elfogódást csupán a cselédség barátságtalan hozzáállása árnyékolja be. Idővel azonban, ahogy a borítón az indák közül előbukkan a ház, lassan lemálik az illúzió, a fess és okos Mr. England gyönyörű családjáról, és a valóság talán nagyon más, mint amit Ruby May a tökéletes és precíz nevelőnő annak lát. I did question halfway into the book about a certain person, so it didn’t come as no surprise when I was proved right, however……why. That was my eagerness to find out.Precíz és a múltat felidéző prózájával Stacey Halls sokkoló, lenyűgöző és teljes mértékben valós világot varázsol elénk. Elejétől a végéig fogva tartott.” – Joanna Glen, a The Other Half of Augusta Hope Costa-díjra jelölt szerzője I loved the character of Ruby and found her to be another strong female protagonist, something that the author is becoming known for. I enjoyed how the author dropped hints throughout the story about both Ruby’s past and the strange goings-on at Hardcastle House. I tried to piece it all together but there were twists and turns that kept me guessing until the end. When the kindly family she works for relocate to America, Ruby May – a newly graduated nurse from the prestigious Norland Institute in London – takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners. At first daunted by the prospect of having four children under her care, where previously she only had one, Ruby soon settles into life at the isolated Hardcastle House in West Yorkshire. But there’s something not quite right about the family entrusted to her care – a feeling that’s reinforced by the beautiful yet mysterious and aloof Mrs England who wanders around in a daze and has a detached relationship with her children. The main mystery, however, relates to the characters at Hardcastle House and specifically Mrs England. At its heart this is a story about women's place in society during this time period and their struggle for independence and against the confines of their lives. It is also a story about power dynamics in relationships. There are themes of mental health and 'gaslighting' explored, and I particularly liked the solidarity that eventually forms between Ruby and Mrs England, and how they support each other.