“It was as if he had put on the quality of maleness, like a flamboyant cloak. He was a tawny lion poised for the kill – and was she the prey? She remembered the lover made up out of books and poems she had dreamed of all summer; he crumpled like the paper he was made of before this insolent offhand terrifying maleness, filling the room with its reek. She hated it but could not take her eyes off him.”
First of all , I was a bit disappointed with the overall story , I found it hash and cruel I really had to push myself to actually finish the book and reading words like bitch and swine really made the whole book feel disgusting . Melanie was a young 15 year old girl , living in a fantasy world , creeping out the front door at night to explore the back garden in the dark wearing her mothers old wedding dress she found in the attic . Dreams of love and being someone she's not , dressed in a wedding dress waiting for her love to return to her . she had never dated anyone in her life . but she wished it so hard , so imagined it instead for a while it was bliss in her dreams and her imagination , until the next day she is shipped off to London on the train with her brother and sister in toe behind her . Taken from all she has ever known . A new life awaits her , but not a good one as of yet . Melanie's parents died in an accident and the house was put up for sale , so she had been sent to live with her uncle Philip who was fat and greedy and disrespectful to his nieces and nephew . But long story short her life with money and hot baths every day and good food , came to an end and she ends up being dirty and used the only kind person that helped look after the children was Maggie his wife . she also had 2 brothers who lived there as well , they did not have much hot water and heating , and to make things worse they had to work to help pay there keep . In the magic toyshop , which has no magic , it just sold wooden toys and all handmade by uncle Philip and Finn and now Melanie , Johnathan and Victoria , although Victoria is too young at this time . To really know what is going on , and it is a relief for Melanie to not have that responsibility of looking after the young ones . 3*/5* I dont think I will ever read it again .
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