Penny Entwhistles mother runs a bed and breakfast frequented by literary heroines. Favorite offers a fun take on the impact literature can have on our lives. Eileen Favorites fiction debut pays homage to her love of literature. Although a true lover of books, Anne-Marie Entwhistle prefers not to read to her spirited daughter, Penny. While the staff diagnoses her fabulous story as an attempt to deal with the long-ago death of her father, her mother commits Penny as a means of protecting her from peculiar goings-on at the house, and Penny must rely on the very fictional characters her mother favors to help her. The Heroines audiobook, by Eileen Favorite. But when a mythical Celtic knight arrives, searching for his lost heroine Deirdre, Penny gets caught up in a web of deception that lands her in the loony bin. And Anne Marie lavishes on her heroine lodgers the attention her daughter longs for. Madame Bovary, Scarlett OHara, and Franny Glass all stayed for a temporary retreat before returning to their inevitable fates - which Penny and her mother must be careful not to interfere with. Penny, in the first throes of teenage rebellion, has little patience for her mother and the heartbroken or otherwise distraught women Anne Marie refuses to counsel (lest she change the course of their stories). Eileen Favorites fiction debut pays homage to her love of literature. Franny Glass, Madame Bovary, Scarlett O'Hara, Catherine Linton and others find respite from their varied crises, but must return to their books eventually and suffer the fate that awaits. On a picturesque acreage near Prairie Bluff, Ill., 13-year-old Penny Entwistle, and her mother, Anne Marie, run a retreat where literary heroines seek temporary refuge from their tragic destinies.
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