‘Emma’s Education’ and ‘Grace’s Gift’ are
two romantic interlinked stories in the Charity School series. Spoilt Emma
Spink is sent away to school in the hopes she will learn to behave. But the school is harsher than her father
intended, and she begs Marianne, now Mrs. Tempest, to put in a word for
her at the Swanley Court
school as a paying pupil. Her schooling is not without
adventure, especially after she befriends Emmie Kovacs. For Emmie has a wicked
uncle and a rather handsome older half-brother.
When young Cecil Hasely falls through the door of his
father’s London
house with a baby in his arms, a wet nurse is needed quickly. Grace Burrel, a
war widow, agrees to tend the child following the stillbirth of her son. She
swiftly becomes one of the family, helping to nurse the now chronically sick
Cecil, and acting as hostess to Chris’s intended bride. The growing happiness of a damaged family is
threatened by ill-intentioned people. Meanwhile, Chris has been dancing attendance
on his intended in Bath,
where some lively young boys cause disruption on a royal scale.
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