This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. This code will help librarians and teacher working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students.

S-Recommended for senior high school students.Ī-Recommended for advance students and adults. Carol Kellerman, Libn/Media Spec, Santa Fe, NM

Another Pink Carnation novel is being planned. Her vocal inflection captures each moment perfectly, from whispered meetings behind drawing room draperies to romantic moments sailing in the moonlight on the Seine. She switches from an American English accent to a British English accent to a French accent flawlessly, never confusing the accent or characters as the scene changes back and forth from the present to the turn of the 18th century. Among the papers is the journal of a fearless, attractive, adventuresome young woman who travels to France to join the League of the Purple Gentian as a spy. Eloise travels to England where she is given access to family papers of a descendant of the Purple Gentian. dissertation on famous British spies: the Scarlet Pimpernel, the Purple Gentian and the Pink Carnation. Harvard grad student Eloise Kelly is writing her Ph.D. SAĪlthough not identified as a satire of the historical romance genre, Willig's first novel pulls off a 'story within a story' with great good humor. Her first stop: England, to finish her dissertation on the English spies of the Napoleonic Wars, like the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian. THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE PINK CARNATION. Everything is coming up carnations in this national bestselling series Realizing romantic heroes are a thing of the past, graduate student Eloise Kelly is determined to focus on her work.

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MLA style: 'The Secret History of the Pink Carnation.' The Free Library.Eloise Kelly settles in to read the secret history hoping to unmask the Pink Carnation's identity, but before she can make this discovery, she uncovers a passionate romance within the pages of the secret history that almost threw off the course of world events. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, a wildly imaginative and highly adventurous debut, opens with the story of a modern-day heroine but soon becomes a book within a book. Eloise has found the secret history of the Pink Carnation, the most elusive spy of all time, the spy who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion. What she discovers is something the finest historians have missed: a secret history that begins with a letter dated 1803. From the cover of THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE PINK CARNATIONĭeciding that true romantic heroes are a thing of the past, Eloise Kelly, an intelligent American who always manages to wear her Jimmy Choo suede boots on the day it rains, leaves Harvard's Widener Library bound for England to finish her dissertation on the dashing pair of spies the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian.

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