She gets over herself quickly and sets to work with a will. Her bitter reactions felt quite realistic. At first, Cornelia is angry and resentful about this. Eldest daughter Cornelia must leave college (Dwight Hall, so possibly Yale, Connecticut) where she was studying interior decorating, art, and music and come home to care for the children. The Copleys must move into a dark, dingy, small home. The mother of 4 children takes a bad fall, suffers a breakdown, and enters a hospital / healing sanitarium. This particular book is set in the 1920s in Philadelphia. Not to mention fixing up a TINY HOME in 1920s, in Not Under the Law, another home-making winner by Grace Livingston Hill. Or see also The Honor Girl, where the daughter of the family comes back home and fixes it up for her brothers and widowed father. From another classic GLH, see also April Gold, where a well-off family loses everything when the banks collapse during the depression, and move to a dismal little dump near the actual city dump. Sometimes I like to read about a group of people making a home together, fixing it up, making it more comfortable and beautiful, with few resources. Like Hill’s other book, The Enchanted Barn, the house feels almost like a main character. I’m on a fixer-upper kick, from □ to □. A real feel-good story, with adorable kids! E-book is probably in public domain, because the book was published in 1924, almost 100 years ago. Great audio narration boosted it up to 4 solid stars.
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