Madeleine Brent
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 382 pages Rating: 4.1 | 816 Users | 67 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Kirkby's Changeling |
| ISBN: | 0449230856 (ISBN13: 9780449230855) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Martin (Stranger at Wildings) |
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Here is a tale of charm and adventure-set in Europe around the turn of the century-whose colorful action ranges from a touring circus in Hungary to the fox-hunting society of the English countryside to the elegant circles of wealth and fashion in London. It is the story of a spirited young woman of eighteen who has left an unhappy, uncertain past in England and made a new life for herself as a trapeze artist in a small touring circus...But that forgotten past will stumble upon her one day, beside a stream in Hungary, where the circus has pitched its tents for a time. It will come in the form of a mysterious young man-handsome, appealing, yet curiously remote-whose appearance is the beginning of a strange, dangerous intrigue that involves deception, romance, disappearance and, in the end, the revelations of a family's darkest secrets.Present Epithetical Books Stranger at Wildings
| Title | : | Stranger at Wildings |
| Author | : | Madeleine Brent |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 382 pages |
| Published | : | December 12th 1976 by Fawcett (first published 1975) |
| Categories | : | Romance. Mystery. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Gothic. Historical Romance |
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Ratings: 4.1 From 816 Users | 67 ReviewsJudgment Epithetical Books Stranger at Wildings
Closer to 2.5 stars.A bully slapping someone less vulnerable, an odd mixture of words while a strange prediction is muttered and a mysterious newcomer's sudden appearance are just three incidents found within the first few chapters of STRANGERS AT WILDINGS. It is about a potpourri of unusual characters that live and work with each other at a circus circa the early 1900s. And it is about Chantal -yes, only one name- and what brought her to this unusual 'family'.First published in 1976, I hadSo, I read this when I was younger and loved it then. Well, I re-read it this past week and fell back in love with it. Madeleine Brent is a genius (and also a man! WHAT?!?! My mom just informed me of this, his pen name is Madeleine Brent.... crazy!) and this book was a very fun read. I forgot a lot of the twists so that made it even more fun to try to remember/figure out what happens...
This was a random pull from the public library size sampling of large print for a project. Glad I kept it a bit longer for a read. It's candy and could almost be considered a young adult novel, as it is a coming of age story in a way. The pacing bogs down in the middle, but it's still written as a page turner with just enough detail to paint a vivid picture through Chantal ' s eyes. Adventure, romance, & mystery all wrapped in here.
A tentative three. The story is enjoyable, Brent's depiction of circus life is detailed and impressive, the main character Chantal is really interesting; but the suspense and mystery could have been done better.
I chose this book for my little old ladies, nursing home book club, and I think it was a great choice. The main character, Chantal, at the beginning of the book, is traveling with a circus as part of a flying trapeze act. Throughout the book we learn more and more about Chantal's past and there are multiple twists and turns as we learn what she knows and what she learns with us. The tale unfolds in the early 1900's and, maybe partially because the copy I read was very well read, it has the feel
This book follows the patterns set in other books I have read by Madeline Brent: girl abandoned, wildly foreign locale (Hungary in this book), strengthening or recreation of personality based upon trying life circumstances, and an anti-hero love interest. There are two "foreign" locations in this novel: Hungary and the circus. The girl, Chantal, was abandoned when she found out she was switched at birth and not entitled to her inheritance, nor wanted by those who were due to her unpleasant
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