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This adventure is described on the cover as ''[[:Category:Eva Ibbotson|Eva Ibbotson]] meets [[:Category:Lemony Snicket|Lemony Snicket]] with a dash of [[A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett|The Little Princess]]'' and I can understand why. The beginning of the book in particular has echoes of Sarah Crewe’s arrival in England and Clemency’s struggles with reduced circumstances are also similar so I suppose comparisons with [[A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett|A Little Princess]] are inevitable. However I think the writing style is very different from that of Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events books. With a debut children’s novel I imagine that these comparisons are made to help give potential readers an idea of the feel of a book but they can be a bit confusing. I think that this is a very enjoyable adventure with an appealing heroine, villains that are just scary enough and humour too. This would be an excellent read for young readers moving on to slightly longer books.

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