MANDY

by Julie Edwards ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 27, 1971

Another Secret Garden, this time with a small cottage attached. The setting is the hideaway of a small orphan girl (Mandy) who receives notes there from ""AN ADMIRER"" until (unfortunately) she's stricken by an illness which confines her to the orphanage and later (fortunately) is adopted by the kind couple who own her retreat. The author, who is Julie ANDREWS Edwards, has managed to expand this sugary plot into a skeletal narrative, but failed to inject any life. The language is unrelievedly barren, and the characterization reads like a school guidance counselor's report -- ""It wasn't in her nature to tolerate sadness,"" ""(Sue) was not as strong a personality as Mandy,"" etc. Julie wrote this book as ""the result of a forfeit she had to pay"" -- at the expense of whom?

Pub Date: Oct. 27, 1971

ISBN: 0061131628

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harper & Row

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1971

Categories: FICTION