The Daughter Of Highland
Hall
Carrie Turansky
Multnomah Books, Oct 7 2014, $14.99
ISBN: 9781601424983
In 1912, sponsored by her autocratic
Aunt Louisa, eighteen year old debutante Katherine Ramsey comes to London
to reside with her relative. Also living
in Louisa’s home is the brother of Kate’s last governess, medical student Jonathan
Foster. He soon must decide between
being a doctor in India as expected of a missionary’s son and helping the
squalid in London.
Kate initially enjoys her debut until a scandal devastates the
equilibrium of her upper class world. She
begins to question the aristocracy’s ethics and her family’s morality. Also Kate is attracted to Jonathan and extremely
interested by the work he is doing to help the impoverished, which Aunt Louisa
insists makes him unacceptable.
The second Edwardian Brides romance
is an enjoyable leisurely-paced inspirational historical. A family affair since readers met much of the
cast including the leads in The Governess of Highland Hall (Jonathan’s sister
and orphaned Kate’s guardian were the protagonists). With a 360 degree look at pre WWI poverty
through the poor and the filters of the aristocracy, the servants and the
missionary doctor enrich an engaging Upstairs-Downstairs Edwardian.
Harriet Klausner
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