About this title: In Missalonghi, on Missy Wright's family's pitifully small homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains, It's a brand new century--the twentieth--a time for new thoughts and bold new actions. And Missy is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging!
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Avon Books
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780380704583ISBN:0380704587
Description: Good. Creased spine. Front cover corners chipped/creased. Various spots on front cover & one on outer edge. Former library copy--stamped on top edge. read more
"I have to say it might have had potential at the beginning but I found it just fading fast. It is a cute idea but I wasn't impressed. I read it for a book group- prob wouldn't have picked it up on my own."
"Sooooo, as a 100% positive "The Blue Castle" rip-off (how could McCullough dare?), I still enjoyed "The Ladies of Missalonghi", but only as I might enjoy the much less attractive and significantly less appealing younger brother of my older, wildly attractive ideal man; the appeal lies in the faint similarities, but the sloppy seconds aren't nearly as satisfying as the real thing!
Really, not a bad short story all in all, but it doens't hold a candle to L.M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle."
"Um livro simples, com uma escrita levezinha que nos envolve logo nas primeiras páginas devido à magia que emanam as descrições das Senhoras de Missalonghi. Três mulheres que vivem sózinhas, dedicadas à casa e às costuras, que apenas vivem o dia a dia de forma calma. Missy a mais nova das três, lê às escondidas belos romances que a ajudam a sonhar numa vida diferente da que leva. Com a ajuda de Una, Missy consegue os seus romances na biblioteca e também tomar uma serie de decisões que afectam toda familia Hurlingford. Numa sociedade onde os homens é que tinham sempre a 1ª e última palavras, Missy consegue colocar tudo de "pernas para o ar" com as suas atitudes intempestivas, mas por vezes bem divertidas ;) A escrita da autora é inconfundivél e apesar da história ser simples o mistério mantém-se até às ultimas páginas terminado como sempre com "Chave de Ouro". Um livro que não devem perder!"
"I was torn between 2 and 3 stars for this book because it was a light and enjoyable read, with interesting characters (a houseful of spinsters is always fun) but I was put off by the ending, which was so improbable and strange. Una was a ghost the whole time? Even people who had met her had no recollection of her? What? I know all romances are unrealistic, but ghosts?"
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