1896. Tirzah, Louisa and Polly are best friends who've left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. Polly is teaching in an orphanage. Louisa is looking for a rich husband at the London Season. And Tirzah is stuck acting as an unpaid companion to her grandmother. In a series of letters, they share their hopes, their frustrations, their dramas ... and their romances. Can these three very different young women find happiness?
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Ever since the sudden deaths of his parents, seventeen-year-oldHugh has developed a serious preoccupation with endings. Andwhen he discovers that high-school outcast Olivia Moon can't die,things start to get a little complicated ...
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