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The Day of the Butterfly

Norah Lofts

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.57 | 149 Users | 11 Reviews

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Original Title:	Day of the Butterfly
ISBN:	0449243591 (ISBN13: 9780449243596)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize (1979)

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Chestnut-haired Daisy saw her own past unfurling like one of Sir Charles' maps. Not step was ever consciously planned; being chosen by Lady Langton as a suitable nursemaid for Mrs. Westcott; getting sacked; drifting into Kitty Hammond's fashionable house of pleasure; dancing for her living; meeting Jack Skelton; loving Jack far more than he had ever loved her; marrying Sir Charles Overton whose embraces she merely endured.

But now all that had changed. Now there was Captain Hugo Stirling and he brought with him a love wonderful beyond all imagining. A love doomed to end too soon...

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Title	:	The Day of the Butterfly
Author	:	Norah Lofts
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	March 12th 1981 by Fawcett (first published 1979)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance. Historical Romance

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Ratings: 3.57 From 149 Users | 11 Reviews

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Great novel. 5 Stars for keeping me hooked to the pages but none of the characters appealed much to me.

Also published using the pseudonyms Juliet Astley and Peter CurtisNorah Lofts, née Norah Robinson, (27 August 190410 September 1983) was a 20th century best-selling British author. She wrote over fifty books specialising in historical fiction, but she also wrote non-fiction and short stories. Many of her novels, including her Suffolk Trilogy, follow the history of a specific house and the

This book is well named as it follows the changes in the being of a young, feckless country girl as she wends her way through life in various parts of England during the 1850's. She is Daisy Holt, who through a series of circumstances, becomes Hebe Waywood, Lady Overton and Mrs. Johnson; each persona standing for another "pose or attitude" such as were popular during that era and in which she performed first at an upscale brothel, then as mistress of a respectable Country House. These "poses"

I plucked one of the tomes still on the shelf at the Carrollton, Miss., library earlier this week by an old favorite, Norah Lofts, bearing a 1979 copyright. A bit too long, I'd say, but her heroine is still slogging onward and upward at the end -- a tribute to the adventures of a country girl's times in England in the early 1800s...

This book is well named as it follows the changes in the being of a young, feckless country girl as she wends her way through life in various parts of England during the 1850's. She is Daisy Holt, who through a series of circumstances, becomes Hebe Waywood, Lady Overton and Mrs. Johnson; each persona standing for another "pose or attitude" such as were popular during that era and in which she performed first at an upscale brothel, then as mistress of a respectable Country House. These "poses"

What does beauty matter? How are we shaped by events? I like this book.

I really love these historic novels. The characters were quite amusing and it was an all around good read.