Great Britain-History-20th century-Fiction.Ĩ. Summary: Thirteen-year-old Hazel leaves her comfortable, if somewhat unconventional, London home in 1913 after her father has a breakdown, and goes to live in the Caribbean on her grandparents’ sugar plantation, where she discovers some shocking family secrets. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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She will have to get married to a wealthy man, particularly as her father is broken by the events. Hazel's father had a lot of money riding on that horse and now things have to change. She knows little about her mother's past.Her world changes when a sufragette steps out in front of the King's horse, dying later from her injuries.
Hazel is in a small school for young ladies and she's being taught to be a wife, to expect that she should marry well. The sequel to Ivy (actually it's Ivy: the Next Generation) It's an interesting story set in 1913, just before the war and England is a fairly Victorian world.
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