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"Listening to a rollicking adventure mystery narrated well is a delight, and that's the case with this newest installment in the Enola Holmes series. Payne brings the wry humor, boisterous personality, and incomparable wit of Enola to life so well that listeners will wish they could join her for tea."- AudioFile Magazine Enola Holmes, Sherlock's much younger, and feistier, sister, returns in an adventure of a confused young Baronet's daughter who is on the run from her father's devious schemes in Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade. Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of Sherlock, is now living independently in London and working as a scientific perditorian (a finder of persons and things). But that is not the normal lot of young women in Victorian England. They are under the near absolute control of their nearest male relative until adulthood. Such is the case of Enola's friend, Lady Cecily Alastair. Twice before Enola has rescued Lady Cecily from unpleasant designs of her caddish father, Sir Eustace Alastair, Baronet. And when Enola is brusquely turned away at the door of the Alastair home it soon becomes apparent that Lady Cecily once again needs her help. Affecting a bold escape, Enola takes Lady Cecily to her secret office only to be quickly found by the person hired by Lady Cecily's mother to find the missing girl - Sherlock Holmes himself. But the girl has already disappeared again, now loose on her own in the unforgiving city of London. Even worse, Lady Cecily has a secret that few know. She has dual personalities - one, which is left-handed, is independent and competent; the other, which is right-handed, is meek and mild. Now Enola must find Lady Cecily again - before one of her personalities gets her into more trouble than she can handle and before Sherlock can find her and return her to her father. Once again, for Enola, the game is afoot. A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books.
Really enjoyed the latest addition to the Enola Holmes series. It's fast-moving, funny, easy reading, and strikes a fantastic balance of "radical" ideas coexisting believably with the conventions of society at the time. Plus the interactions with Enola's big brother Sherlock are A . There's secret code writing, daring escapes, over-the-top disguises, and an intriguing case of dual personality. What's not to love?
Thanks to Netgalley and St Martin's Press for the advance review copy. ( )
Another fun adventure with Enola. I like how Nancy Springer embeds women's rights into the plot in a sometimes humorous, always meaningful way. So glad I don't live in those times! ( )
This latest installment in the Enola Holmes series features the young sleuth teaming up with her brother Sherlock to locate a Lady Cecily, missing debutante. The young lady in question has been locked up by her father and kept a prisoner in preparation for an arranged marriage. Enola helps her escape, but then the Lady disappears! Did I mention the Lady Cecily exhibits traits of a split personality, detected by her use of her left hand (independent woman) or her right hand (shrinking miss)? A new character, Lady Vienna, appears in this book, and hopefully will appear in future Enola Holmes adventures.
While this story seems designed for a television movie, it contains quite a bit of action and intrigue. Readers may find themselves scratching their heads at some of the over-the-top vocabulary. However, it is still worth the read.
I received this novel from the publisher and from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The opinions expressed here are entirely my own. ( )
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Prologue: Seventeen-year-old Lady Cecily Alistair took a knitting needle in her left fist and used its point quite forcibly to scratch a crude, life-sized caricature of her father on the inside of her locked bedroom door.
Chapter the First: October 1889: Alighting from my cab on that sunny October day, I felt an extraordinary sense of well-being.
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Her gaze was fixed on the dock below, where, across an ever-widening distance, Enola was waving, waving goodbye.
Mystery.
Historical Fiction.
Young Adult Fiction.
Young Adult Literature.
HTML:
"Listening to a rollicking adventure mystery narrated well is a delight, and that's the case with this newest installment in the Enola Holmes series. Payne brings the wry humor, boisterous personality, and incomparable wit of Enola to life so well that listeners will wish they could join her for tea."- AudioFile Magazine Enola Holmes, Sherlock's much younger, and feistier, sister, returns in an adventure of a confused young Baronet's daughter who is on the run from her father's devious schemes in Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade. Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of Sherlock, is now living independently in London and working as a scientific perditorian (a finder of persons and things). But that is not the normal lot of young women in Victorian England. They are under the near absolute control of their nearest male relative until adulthood. Such is the case of Enola's friend, Lady Cecily Alastair. Twice before Enola has rescued Lady Cecily from unpleasant designs of her caddish father, Sir Eustace Alastair, Baronet. And when Enola is brusquely turned away at the door of the Alastair home it soon becomes apparent that Lady Cecily once again needs her help. Affecting a bold escape, Enola takes Lady Cecily to her secret office only to be quickly found by the person hired by Lady Cecily's mother to find the missing girl - Sherlock Holmes himself. But the girl has already disappeared again, now loose on her own in the unforgiving city of London. Even worse, Lady Cecily has a secret that few know. She has dual personalities - one, which is left-handed, is independent and competent; the other, which is right-handed, is meek and mild. Now Enola must find Lady Cecily again - before one of her personalities gets her into more trouble than she can handle and before Sherlock can find her and return her to her father. Once again, for Enola, the game is afoot. A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books.
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