May. 25th, 2018

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I'm about....85% sure I've read this book before. I only started keeping track of all books I read in 2009 and I read a LOT of books in the years before that and have a terrible memory. A lot of things about this book seemed familiar, but that might just be because I read reviews of the book when I first added it to my TBR list years ago? But it also seems fairly likely that it's because I actually read this book before!

At any rate it's a book that is well worth a first read OR a reread so it doesn't really matter in the end.

It's a story of an orphan girl, Maud, in the 19th century who is adopted by three elderly sisters on the condition that she remain a secret. She's perfectly willing to abide by this because the orphanage is not all that great and she desperately wants to be loved and belong with someone.

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