Books with title The Abbey Girls Play Up

Avril rated it it was amazing.My favourite in the whole series, the book in which we meet Rosamund and Maidlin. Some painful class-consciousness, and a promotion of noblesse oblige that sometimes sets my radical republican Australian teeth on edge—but still a wonderful escape for times when the real world is difficult.Note: This is the abridged edition from The Children's Press. We have the full edition under development.

This is the book that introduces Mary-Dorothy and her sister, 'bad girl' Biddy, and it was something of a disappointment in that it seemed as if it should have been a major event, but really nothing much happens in the book. Mary and Biddy meet Jen and Joy and are taken under their wings (which is to say, the Abbey girls try and make them into the kind of girls they make everyone into.)Taken in terms of the series as a whole, however, it's not without interest. This establishes Mary as a shrinking, lifeless character, and in the books to come we really get to see her grow and become an increasingly important figure in the lives of those around her. It also shows Biddy as she always is; caught between her 'business' side (the side we're not meant to approve of, of course) and her 'nice' side. (Can you tell I have a soft spot for Biddy?) Meanwhile, Joy (who is at her best here, lacking neither self-awareness nor compassion.

This is the book that introduces Mary-Dorothy and her sister, 'bad girl' Biddy, and it was something of a disappointment in that it seemed as if it should have been a major event, but really nothing much happens in the book. Mary and Biddy meet Jen and Joy and are taken under their wings (which is to say, the Abbey girls try and make them into the kind of girls they make everyone into.)Taken in terms of the series as a whole, however, it's not without interest. This establishes Mary as a shrinking, lifeless character, and in the books to come we really get to see her grow and become an increasingly important figure in the lives of those around her. It also shows Biddy as she always is; caught between her 'business' side (the side we're not meant to approve of, of course) and her 'nice' side. (Can you tell I have a soft spot for Biddy?) Meanwhile, Joy (who is at her best here, lacking neither self-awareness nor compassion.—Helen, on Goodreads.com.

This is the book that introduces Mary-Dorothy and her sister, 'bad girl' Biddy, and it was something of a disappointment in that it seemed as if it should have been a major event, but really nothing much happens in the book. Mary and Biddy meet Jen and Joy and are taken under their wings (which is to say, the Abbey girls try and make them into the kind of girls they make everyone into.)Taken in terms of the series as a whole, however, it's not without interest. This establishes Mary as a shrinking, lifeless character, and in the books to come we really get to see her grow and become an increasingly important figure in the lives of those around her. It also shows Biddy as she always is; caught between her 'business' side (the side we're not meant to approve of, of course) and her 'nice' side. (Can you tell I have a soft spot for Biddy?) Meanwhile, Joy (who is at her best here, lacking neither self-awareness nor compassion.

This is the book that introduces Mary-Dorothy and her sister, 'bad girl' Biddy, and it was something of a disappointment in that it seemed as if it should have been a major event, but really nothing much happens in the book. Mary and Biddy meet Jen and Joy and are taken under their wings (which is to say, the Abbey girls try and make them into the kind of girls they make everyone into.)Taken in terms of the series as a whole, however, it's not without interest. This establishes Mary as a shrinking, lifeless character, and in the books to come we really get to see her grow and become an increasingly important figure in the lives of those around her. It also shows Biddy as she always is; caught between her 'business' side (the side we're not meant to approve of, of course) and her 'nice' side. (Can you tell I have a soft spot for Biddy?) Meanwhile, Joy (who is at her best here, lacking neither self-awareness nor compassion.—Helen, on Goodreads.com.