I found it impossible not to fall in love with Penelope and her three dear charges. To my delight, I found it to be a wonderful story, one the entire family could enjoy. I read this book hoping to find a great audiobook to listen to on our family vacation. The Mysterious Howling is brilliant and fun. Penelope sets herself to the task and achieves often hilarious and endearing results in this first book in a series which has been described as a mash-up of Lemony Snicket and Jane Eyre. Now that they’ve been “rescued” from the forest by Lord Ashton, the children must be civilized and educated. Not every governess is willing to take on three children who were raised by wolves.
If only she can figure out what the Schottische is and prepare the children for it, she might have a chance at keeping her job with the children she has grown to love.
When Lady Constance plans an extravagant Christmas party that the children must attend, Penelope puts aside her plans for geography and mathematics in favor of table manners and appropriate dinner conversation. Not by the unusual names (Alexander, Beowulf and Cassiopeia) bestowed on them by Lord Ashton himself. Not by the children’s wild fervor over chasing squirrels.
When she is greeted by the skittish household at Ashton Place, however, and confronted by the strange howling children who are scarcely clad, Penelope realizes it will take all her training, education, and her fond memories of books about wild ponies, to handle this task. As a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females and armed with the pithy and wise sayings of the school’s founder, Agathe Swanburne, Penelope is ready for anything. Published Febru(Originally published 2009) Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreadsįifteen-year-old Penelope Lumley has been summoned to her first interview for her first governess position. The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #1)
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