Crossriggs Best Download || [Mary Findlater Jane Findlater Paul Binding] - Crossriggs, Crossriggs Alex he said you have a genius for living You just know how to do it You re alive and most of us with our prudence and foresight and realization of our duties are as dead as stones Alexandra Hope
- Title: Crossriggs
- Author: Mary Findlater Jane Findlater Paul Binding
- ISBN: 9780860687313
- Page: 245
- Format: Paperback
Crossriggs Best Download || [Mary Findlater Jane Findlater Paul Binding], Crossriggs, Mary Findlater Jane Findlater Paul Binding, Crossriggs Alex he said you have a genius for living You just know how to do it You re alive and most of us with our prudence and foresight and realization of our duties are as dead as stones Alexandra Hope lives with her unworldly vegetarian father her widowed sister and five nieces and nephews in the Scottish village of Crossriggs Whilst her sister Mathilda per Alex he said you have a g Crossriggs Best Download || [Mary Findlater Jane Findlater Paul Binding] - Crossriggs, Crossriggs Alex he said you have a genius for living You just know how to do it You re alive and most of us with our prudence and foresight and realization of our duties are as dead as stones Alexandra Hope
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Crossriggs Best Download || [Mary Findlater Jane Findlater Paul Binding]
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I had lots of reasons to think I would love this book It s set in a small Scottish town, early in the 20th century It s is a collaboration between sister authors I writers working together always intrigue me It s a Virago Modern Classic, and Liz and Ali both loved it.I did love it I can t say that its a great book, but it is a lovely period piece.Alexandra Hope lives in Crossriggs with her father He is generous to a fault, he loves to help people and to try new things but he rarely stops to cons [...]
Crossriggs is one of the novels that Scottish sisters Jane and Mary Findlater collaborated on together, but they each wrote independently too.In the tiny Scottish village of Crossriggs, Alexandra Hope lives with her unworldly father He is an impractical, vegetarian dreamer, called Old Hopeful by the locals, she one of those wonderfully spirited, unconventional Victorian women Crossriggs is just an hour or so by train to Edinburgh but it might be much further it feels like a place far removed fro [...]
I often roam my favorite book blogs to see what others are reading and recommending Just what I need, to read, but nonetheless, I roam away Both Eden Rock and Heavenali praised a somewhat obscure Scottish novel called Crossriggs.My library didn t have a copy, so I turned to our inter library system My little book had to travel almost 700 miles from the library at University of California, Long Beach which cost me nothing Most every library has an inter library loan arrangement for its patrons, [...]
The preface by Paul Binding compares this to Emma, with justification, but there are distinct echoes of Little Women, too I wonder if Binding just didn t see these, or didn t choose to note them he says at the end of the preface that the heroine becomes a little too winningly plucky, nearer to Louisa May Alcott s Jo Marchan to the protagonist of a serious novel Anyway, it s a tale of several families in a small Scottish town The beginning is Cranford esque, but when the story becomes much drama [...]
I enjoyed this tale of Scottish family life in the early 20th century It does have some elements from earlier well known books what hasn t but it s well written and has some very interesting characters Quite philosophical.
This novel, written in 1908 by a pair of Scottish sisters, feels very much like a romantic novel at first The heroine, Alex Hope, reminds one of Jo March, with all the pluck but without the sentiment She s a angular and edgy character All the inhabitants of Crossriggs are seen through her clear, often fond, and sometimes sarcastic eyes Her father, nicknamed Old Hopeful, is lovable but entirely impractical, to the point of endangering his family, and so Alex takes on the job of supporting the ho [...]