The things that Margaret had to go through as a housemaid certainly made for some amusing moments. Klassen excels at keeping the reader riveted to the pages, both with her awesome, intricate storyplot and her deep, endearing characters. And found it very hard to put it down at the end of each chapter.
Once she was brought low and humbled as a housemaid-and learned so many lessons about the people who work so hard behind the scenes-she grew on me.įor being a rather thick book, I flew through the pages, easily. Margaret took a little longer for me to warm up to, but through no fault of the author! She was just a bit too uppity. At his first appearance after years in Barabdos, I was glued to the pages and instantly intrigued about this man. The first character that struck me the strongest and grabbed my attention was wild-mannered and dashingly good looking Nathaniel Upchurch. Open this book and Klassen will transports you back to the early 1800s, in England, when upper-class Margaret Macy suddenly finds her life altered to that of a lowly housemaid.
Julie Klassen is the 21st century's Jane Austen! I knew she was good after reading The Apothocary’s Daughter, but The Maid of Fairbourne Hall really blew me away. (Jan.First posted on my blog, Legacy of a Writer. The reliable Klassen has produced a well-realized genre winner in which Christian elements are subtle and historically appropriate. The upstairs-downstairs dynamic of the upper and serving classes puts meat on the story’s bones. In a tale of disguise and transformation with echoes of The Prince and the Pauper and perhaps a dash of Shakespearean heroine, Margaret’s character and judgment are enriched as she works for a living-and it wouldn’t be a Regency romance without a suitable suitor for her. Margaret literally becomes the poor little rich girl as she is forced to take a job as a housemaid, disguising herself as Nora Garret to work in the home of Nathaniel Upchurch, whose marriage proposal she had rejected, hoping to snare his dashing older brother Lewis instead. Margaret Macy, who is soon to inherit a fortune that will allow her to be independent, flees the home of her stepfather rather than be forced to marry his odious fortune-hunting nephew. Christy winner Klassen (The Girl in the Gatehouse) mines another gem of a story from the rich Regency vein.
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