{"id":2280,"date":"2014-03-23T10:32:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T10:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2015-03-30T23:38:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:38:32","slug":"manor-of-secrets-by-katherine-longshore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2280","title":{"rendered":"Manor of Secrets by Katherine Longshore"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Manor<\/p>\n

Charlotte Edmonds is expected to be a perfect lady.\u00a0 After all, how will she land the perfect husband if she doesn\u2019t dress, speak, and act exactly as society expects?\u00a0 She seems to be a constant disappointment to her mother, Lady Diana, who has her sights set on a marriage proposal from Lord Andrew Broadhurst before Charlotte even makes it to her first season.\u00a0 Even though her best friend, Fran, seems content to play by the rules and to hope for a marriage proposal from a suitable man, Charlotte longs for more \u2014 for fun, spontaneity, and a career as a writer.\u00a0 When Charlotte spies a scullery maid, Janie, sneaking away from a garden party to wade in the lake on a hot summer day, she decides to try it too.\u00a0 Thus begins an unlikely friendship between the girls.\u00a0 Secret rendezvous and rule-breaking abound as Charlotte and Janie try to find a way to live the lives they want instead of the lives they\u2019ve been pigeonholed into, and all of The Manor\u2019s secrets come spilling out.\u00a0 The ending is tidy enough, but just begs for a sequel.\u00a0 (This book is a “must read” for Downton Abbey <\/em>fans!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlotte Edmonds is expected to be a perfect lady.\u00a0 After all, how will she land the perfect husband if she doesn\u2019t dress, speak, and act exactly as society expects?\u00a0 She seems to be a constant disappointment to her mother, Lady Diana, who has her sights set on a marriage proposal from Lord Andrew Broadhurst before … Continue reading Manor of Secrets by Katherine Longshore<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}