A Calamity of Mannerings by Joanna Nadin

£8.99

Young Reader Review

A Calamity of Mannerings is a story about a girl learning about love and responsibility. Panth is strong and inquisitive, and learns a lot about life after her family is forced out of their upper class lifestyle. She has to deal with the outcomes of her decisions and work through problems. This book would be good for people who enjoyed I Capture the Castle and Anne of Green Gables.’

Rating: 4.5/5 stars

Reviewed by: Scarlet, aged 13

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Description

Take a peek into the diary of Panth (never enquire as to her given name), a young woman knocking on the gilded door of adult life and high society. But kicking up one’s heels at the Café de Paris does not come easily to a girl navigating poverty, a lack of any experience whatsoever with the opposite sex, multiple sisters with ideas, a grandmother with opinions and one recalcitrant sheep. Panth knows there is more for her out in the world – it’s 1924, for goodness’ sake – and that could include swoonsome American with excellent teeth, Buck Buchanan. The question is – how in the name of Tatler is she to claim it?