The Awakening of Miss Prim : A Novel (Paperback)

from shelleyraec

"Wanted: a feminine spirit quite undaunted by the world to work as a librarian for a gentleman and his books. Able to live with dogs and children. Preferably without work experience. Graduates and postgraduates need not apply." Miss Prudencia Prim, quite undaunted by her lack of experience with d...

from whitreidtan

I love books about books and libraries and bibliophiles. I love clever books that make allusions to famous works and that have echoes of the classics weaving through the plot. So The Awakening of Miss Prim by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera should have been an easy book for me to love. But it wasn't....

from debnance

Expectation: will love. Actual evaluation: liked. Transformation novels are my favs. I'd thought, hoped really, that The Awakening of Miss Prim might rise to the top of my all-time fav book list, but that did not happen for me. The characters, the setting...these were all a little too unlikely, a...

from Beamis12

3.5 There is something of an old-fashioned feel to the way this book s narrated. Miss Prim herself, is very correct, very determined and opinionated person. When she arrives in San Ireneo to take up her new post as a librarian to the man in the wing chair, he is never named, she finds children wh...

from judithrs

The Awakening of Miss Prim. Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera. 2013. I loved this book! It is whimsical, romantic, intelligent, a beautifully written. I wanted to start over and read it again when I finished it. Miss Prim is highly educated young woman who is very sure of herself and set in her ways. S...