This begins Amanda’s detailed plan to end up with her true love, John Thorne, instead of the American Architect, Gregory Forrest. Amanda for the first time, she decides to rename Mary, Miranda. She gradually starts to become fixated on Mary because she looks very similar to the young mistress, sparking a plan in her mind. Soon after Mary arrives, she is ordered to go serve Ms. After Mary finds her way back to the path, she had run off from, and is also the place where her parents stand to wait to carry on to Mary’s new job as a maid at the Whitwell estate. The author begins the book with Mary stumbling upon an old woman in the woods who describes to Mary that her future holds two marriages and that she will die and live again.
Mary Cooke, a young maid working for the Whitwell family looks identical to the family’s young mistress and Amanda Whitwell, a young mistress with an arrogant attitude, play the lead roles in “Amanda Miranda” written by Richard Peck. I've read worse, but this wasn't anything special. Whut.) Anyway.far more interesting were side characters like butler Finley, housemaid Betty, & Eleanor, the aristocratic matriarch of the family. I figured she'd at least turn out to be a bastard daughter, but nope. (And being an exact duplicate of someone you're not related to? Yeah, that stretches belief. You can't keep seeing through manipulation & still be surprised when you're treated like crap.yet she was. Miranda herself had quite a journey, but she was dense & not particularly interesting. There was no legit reason for Thorne & Gregory to be so devoted. Sauron in LotR), otherwise their villainy is cardboard & obnoxious.as was the case here. Even the cruelest villain requires *something* sympathetic (aside from those rare 'pure evil' characters, e.g.
Indeed, the last 150-odd pgs are easily the best of the book, & would have been better in an overall product half the length.Īside from the meandering descriptions - well-written, yes, but still annoyingly long-winded - the biggest flaw is that Amanda has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. That said, the original adult version is way too long, lingering (needlessly?) over endless descriptions of clothes, furniture, scenery, architecture, housekeeping, & social issues of late Edwardian England. The central topics - abusive mistresses, social/class upheaval, sexual manipulation, bigamy, & the ridiculous loss of life on the Titanic - wouldn't fit properly in a mid-grade frame. Apparently there's an abridged middle-grade version of this novel, & I'm sure it's horrible.
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