A Young Lady's Miscellany

Whats a girl of fourteen to do when she finds herself alone in the world with no one to guide her? Why follow the Victorian self-help guide A Young Ladys Miscellany of course! The trouble is the advice it offers proves less than helpful in a contemporary context. Muddling through often with disastrous results she finds a friend in her recently widowed grandmother the door to whose small house is always open. Inept at any job she is able to get and pursued by a slew of unsuitable suitors she must instead spend a decade navigating her own miscellany in order to come of age. A wonderful account perhaps the best Ive ever read of a female coming into her own Tony Connor Fellow Royal Society of Literature