The Love-Child

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Summary: These books should be more popular!
Review: I wish more people would read books by Philippa Carr/Jean Plaidy/Victoria Holt. The books are not in print anymore and it is such a shame! These days it seems that if it is not new and hot off the presses, then why print it or read it! I have been forced to buy most books by authors I like at used bookstores or Amazon.com since I can't buy them new because they are out of print. The Daughters of England series by Philippa Carr is a prime example of good entertaining, moving historical fiction. These would be big sellers if promoted better. I read a lot, and this is one of the tops in my favorite author list.

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Summary: One of the Best in the Series
Review: This is one of the best books in the Carr series, Daughters of England. There is action right from the beginning of the book with some political intrigue and a young romance. The results of this romance lead the heroine, Priscilla, into more intrigue and danger in Venice. Priscilla then makes a sacrifice for her father, a man who had always dismissed her as "just a daughter," and even this sacrifice continues to haunt her and threaten her daughter, Carlotta. Satisfactorily at the end, the father comes to learn of the sacrifice his daughter made for him and realizes that daughters can be even more important than sons. There is a murder at the end of the book that reverberates into the next book in the series, Song of the Siren, which is also excellent.