I also love how it promotes new ideas as a bulwark against stagnation. She learns her own unique power and loses the fears that have held her back. I love how it leads you to discover January as she discovers herself. It has an intricate and intriguing plot and it snags you and winds you in as it goes back and forth between the story of Adelade and January and Yule. The story is exciting, mysterious, with wonderfully concieved elements of magic. The third story is that of Yule - a gentle scholar from another world, whose very life is turned upside down by love, by mystery, by curiousity and the power of stories. A fearless wanderer hurtling herself between worlds with laughter and spirit. A life that is such a contrast to January, she leaves her poor farm at a young age seeking not just adventure but questing for one person she met as a child. One is the story of Adelade, a wild girl. Interspersed into January’s tale are two others. She is cooped up in his house, or protected on his travels and remains beholden to and almost fearfully obedient to the polite and usually pleasant Mr. She loves adventure stories, misses her father, has no idea what happened to her mother. Locke scouring the world for his collectibles. Set around the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, this book tells the story of January, a girl and then young woman who is looked after in a big old mansion in New England filled with collectibles from around the world.
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