Her pangs of remorse made her more complex than just the all-around the "bitch" a couple characters say she is. Ella, on the other hand, can be incredibly callous and selfish, wrapped up in her own efforts to get ahead in the world and experience the finer things that she never could before. It's so formulaic I hardly consider that a spoiler. We don't get a lot of women like her in fiction-Sadie's type of character is more usual: the girl who stands out but just wants to go unnoticed learns to find her strength. Not because she was a likable character, but because she wasn't. The sisters were great characters, and I particularly liked Ella. I waffled over whether to include this in my "good world-building" category and I'm going for it, though mostly because this time wasn't familiar to me and yet I could see everything clearly in my mind's eye. I don't know much about urban England in the 1660s, though I've read about life in the country, particularly during the plague-so this trip to the city taught me a lot. A fun and fairly fluffy bit of historical fiction. I very much enjoyed it, though it didn't have much depth.
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