Genre Mash up: Funny/Mystery/Drama
Rating: 4 1/4 stars
In this first entry in the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series, the author pokes fun of every book that ever has a governess headed out to teach a child or children in a big manor house out in the middle of nowhere. 15 year old Penelope is a graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females and was granted an interview and post out at Ashton Place to instruct children who were known as the Incorrigibles. Why? Because Lord Ashton found the two boys and one girl running wild like wolves while out hunting and brought them home. No one knows where the children came from or who they belong to, but Penelope does her best to bend them into properly behaved children. But mysteries abound--where did these children come from? Why did Lord Ashton take them in? And what is that mysterious howling that can be heard? And can Penelope mold these children into perfect behavior in time for Lady Ashton's Christmas ball? Readers who enjoy a book whose story is firmly tongue in cheek will love this and be looking forward to the sequel, The Hidden Gallery.
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