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Inspiré par la vie et les ouvrages de Beatrix Potter, le livre tente de se mettre dans la peau d'une jeune fille non-conventionelle de la bonne société Victorienne.

Un livre amusant, plutôt orienté vers les adolescents à mon avis, un peu simplistique. Dans le genre, je préfère "Clémentine veut sa liberté" de Jane Flory, que j'avais beaucoup aimé à cet age.

Very good, intellectually stimulating, and the book's end is great!

The first two books are really captivating, the last book is too self-pitying and lacks the attraction of exoticity since it happens in France among rich people... boring! However, it does provide some insights into the relations between Lucien Bodard's parents and the wider political issues of the time, so it is not a complete waste of time.

I was a bit disappointed because I thought the book would go more into the ridiculousness of academia. Otherwise, amusing but I did not feel the story was going anywhere.

Rather long winded and repetitive.

Amusing at the start.

I was really confused by the course of the book, and I was not happy about the end :) I think I confused this book with another one that was recommended to me, where the hero starts like Oblomov but then at some point goes to explore the world. I was waiting for that point for almost the whole book! Now I have to find out what book was actually the one I meant to read!

Extremely shocking history of the systematic extermination of various social, political and ethnic categories by both Staline and Hitler and their willing minions. It must have been terrible to be a defenseless victim of such barbaric policies, completely without help from anyone and with no hope of getting out.