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Ladataan... Pollyanna's Protégée (1944)Tekijä: Margaret Piper Chalmers
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Ms. Piper Chalmers would have seemed to have been a good choice for the Pollyanna series, which were known as the glad books. Early in her career, Ms. Piper Chalmers did a series of three cheerful books. They featured Sylvia Arden, and were, imho rather good. I think Ms. Piper Chalmers had pretty much lost her mojo by the time she wrote this book, which might be the reason someone else was asked to write subsequent Pollyanna books.
The book is OK, but not all that great, certainly now so good as the original Pollyanna book (I've only read the first in the series), nor the Sylvia Arden books. I'm thinking this was Ms. Piper Chalmers' weakest effort. Still, It's not bad, just not up to snuff compared to the initial Pollyanna books, nor the early works of Ms. Piper Chalmers.
So, anyway, Pollynanna is a middle aged, married woman, whose son and husband are off dealing with WWII. She and her younger daughter, Ruth, pick up a young woman, Mary Thorne (actually Rosemary Lane), who is on a bridge, contemplating "ending it all". They take Rosemary home, nurse her back to health, and incorporate her into their household. Eventually, Rosemary's past comes out, things turn out not to be quite as they might have seemed, and all works out well in the end. Something like that.
The first half was overly saccherine, and I actually thought of giving up. But, then things improved, and it turned out to be an ok read in the end.
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