{"id":69,"date":"2012-09-26T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2012-09-26T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:00:00","slug":"wentworth-hall-by-abby-grahame-fiction-country-estate-family-secrets-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Wentworth Hall, by Abby Grahame (fiction) – country estate, family secrets uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An upper-crust British country estate,
filled with portraits, servants, and secrets…
welcome to Wentworth Hall<\/i>.<\/p>\n

In the peaceful golden years before WWI<\/a>,\u00a0 new arrivals coincide with public whispers of old concerns that the Darlingtons would much rather keep silent.<\/p>\n

Who’s blabbing to the newspaper about the county’s most-influential family – the new French nanny?
The teen cousins about to inherit a diamond mine fortune<\/a>?
The stablemaster fearing Lord Darlington’s cost-cutting plans?<\/p>\n

A nice bit of mystery combined with historical fiction, Wentworth Hall<\/i>\u00a0 will please readers who enjoy stories about families and relationships, as well as those who adore the Downton Abbey<\/a> television series.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Did the butler do it? Where has Maggie’s crazy independent streak gone? What’s her little sister Lila up to?\u00a0 Find out in hardback or eBook at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a><\/b>.
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Book info<\/b>: Wentworth Hall \/ Abby Grahame. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2012.\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0
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My Recommendation<\/b>:
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Maggie\u2019s sojourn in France has calmed the impetuous teen, but her return to Wentworth Hall in 1912 is rattled by the arrival of Teddy and Jessica. The recently orphaned twins need to stay at the family estate for a few months, just until they turn 18, but their time in the English countryside promises to be anything but quiet. <\/div>\n
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Perhaps some of the vast fortune they\u2019ll inherit soon will stay there, hopes Lord Darlington. Maintaining Wentworth Hall and its large staff is quite costly, and his investments haven\u2019t done well at all. And now Lady Darlington\u2019s new baby boy, the expensive nanny from France, a stable full of horses \u2013 where do the expenses end? Marrying his elder son to Jessica Fitzhugh, or Maggie to dashing Teddy, or both\u2026hmm.<\/div>\n
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Keeping up appearances in British society is priceless, so when the local paper prints scandalous articles which can only refer to the Darlingtons, everyone at Wentworth Hall begins to look over their shoulders \u2013 someone inside the estate is writing the articles, hinting at secrets that have long been hidden.<\/div>\n
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What does the writer want from the family? How far will they go to stop the newspaper stories? Can any shared secret truly stay hidden? \u00a0<\/span>How can Maggie repair the friendships that she broke off when she went abroad?<\/div>\n
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A treat for fans of genteel British nobility, family histories, and mystery, Wentworth Hall<\/i>holds more than its share of secrets.(One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An upper-crust British country estate,filled with portraits, servants, and secrets…welcome to Wentworth Hall. In the peaceful golden years before WWI,\u00a0 new arrivals coincide with public whispers of old concerns that the Darlingtons would much rather keep silent. Who’s blabbing to the newspaper about the county’s most-influential family – the new French nanny?The teen cousins about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,51],"tags":[22,4,75,11,32,18,43,39,49,15,21,57,35,3,6,8],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-mystery","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-england","tag-family","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}