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Fans of Downton Abbey will find exactly what theyre looking for in this romantic, historical dramaWelcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, social class means everything, and women are taught to be nothing more than wives and mothers. Into this world comes seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling, who wants only to be an artista nearly impossible dream for a girl. After Vicky poses nude for her illicit art class, she is expelled from her French finishing school. Shamed and scandalized, her parents try to marry her off to the wealthy Edmund Carrick-Humphrey. But Vicky has other things on her mind her clandestine application to the Royal College of Art her participation in the suffragette movement and her growing attraction to a working-class boy who may be her museor may be the love of her life.
About the Author
Sharon Biggs Waller is the author of the critically acclaimed young adult novels The Forbidden Orchid and A Mad, Wicked Folly and the up-coming Girls on the Verge. She lives on a 10-acre hobby farm in Northwest Indiana with her husband Mark, two horses, ten dairy goats, four cats, two dogs, thirty laying hens, a gaggle of geese, and a turkey. She is a proud Planned Parenthood clinic volunteer. You can find her at www.sharonbiggswaller.com.
