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Gr 8 Up—Arabella Sharp, orphaned at 17, has come to stay with her only living relative, a grandmother she has never met. Lady Charlotte and her daughter, Abbie's mother, had been estranged since before Abbie's birth. Having grown up on the rough-and-tumble streets of Dublin, where her mother scraped by as a governess, Abbie feels constrained by the status-conscious lifestyle of the Kensington district of London, where her grandmother's mansion is located. Convinced that a li...Log In or Sign Up to Read More