No Life for a Lady: The absolutely joyful and uplifting historical romcom everyone is talking about

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No Life for a Lady: The absolutely joyful and uplifting historical romcom everyone is talking about

No Life for a Lady: The absolutely joyful and uplifting historical romcom everyone is talking about

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I can’t say I found some of Violet’s behaviour wholly credible towards the end, but hey, this isn’t a story to be taken too seriously. It is near the anniversary of her mother’s disappearance, and she decides to hire a private detective Frank Knight to solve the mystery of her missing mother.

Her father, convinced that her mother has left them, pretends like she never existed, but Violet cannot. I'm so glad she was able to put her unique world into a bottle, to exist forever, from before all of this.That's why I picked this book up, for a whopping fifty cents, at my hometown library's semi-annual book sale.

All are in a simple no nonsense style reflecting the fact that this was life as it was and accepted as such. In digging up the past though, Violet sets off a chain of events that puts more than just her reputation at risk. I really enjoyed reading this book; it's nicely organized even if not strictly linear and is well-written.Beautifully written, and very evocative of it's time, I really enjoyed this novel about a girl growing up in the 1890s but with very much a mind of her own. His widow undertook to administer the affairs of a large cattle ranch in the Datil mountains— with indifferent and dwindling success until Agnes and her younger brother Raymond reached their teens and began to take affairs into their own hands. She doesn't get sentimental or try to romanticize the West; in fact, she debunks some of the cowboy mythology that arose from Hollywood and popular fiction. Knight uncovers some shocking information about Lily, what her mother had been doing for the months prior to her vanishing, Violet didn't have a clue and this makes her extremely curious and she now wants to investigate the case herself. For those who like women's stories of frontier life, I recommend this selection as a more sophisticated, disciplined, and modern read than Isabella Bird's A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.



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