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Sharon Biggs Waller

Autor(a) de A Mad, Wicked Folly

4 Works 462 Membros 36 Críticas

About the Author

Sharon Biggs Waller worked as a riding instructor at the Royal Mews in Buckingham Palace and as a freelance magazine writer. She is currently a dressage rider and trainer on a ten-acre sustainable farm in Northwest Indiana. She is the author of three non-fiction books as well as the young adult mostrar mais novels A Mad, Wicked Folly and The Forbidden Orchid. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Sharon Biggs Waller

A Mad, Wicked Folly (2014) 254 exemplares
The Forbidden Orchid (2016) 108 exemplares
Girls on the Verge (2020) 99 exemplares
Untitled 1 exemplar

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
20th Century
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Locais de residência
Indiana, USA
Ocupações
author
riding instructor
National Park Ranger

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Sharon Biggs Waller is the Friends of American Writers award winning author of the critically acclaimed young adult novels The Forbidden Orchid, A Mad, Wicked Folly, and Girls on the Verge. She writes for magazines about horses, chickens, and farming, and she’s a co-author of The Original Horse Bible. Previously, she worked as a riding instructor at the Royal Mews in Buckingham Palace and as a national park ranger at Indiana Dunes National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, and Cabrillo National Monument. In addition to writing, she is a dressage rider and trainer, a fiber artist, and a Planned Parenthood clinic escort. She lives on a 10-acre sustainable hobby farm in a ghost town in Northwest Indiana with her husband Mark, two horses, ten dairy goats, four cats, three dogs, ten laying hens, and a gaggle of geese.

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For some reason, the title of this book put me off of it for the longest time. I'm so glad I finally got around to reading it -- excellent historical fiction, with a stubborn young woman at the heart of it. There are things I found difficult to believe, given the social setting, but I found her journey into adulthood and personal responsibility to be excellently well depicted. These characters felt very real to me -- unlike in many teen books, when the main character fails to do what they know is right and the drama just grows and grows from there, in this book failures are acknowledged and (eventually or immediately forgiven). I was completely drawn into the suffrage movement and the artistic scene, and I loved the pre-raphaelite mentions.… (mais)
 
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jennybeast | 21 outras críticas | Apr 14, 2022 |
Excellent. Made me feel like I was living in London, 1909. The suffragist history is excellent, full of details, the footnote at end sorts out which are historical and which fiction.

The main character, Vicky, has the same dilemma women face today but her choices are starker. Great historical fiction, a solid romance coupled with a sense of history.

Highly recommended.
 
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Bookjoy144 | 21 outras críticas | Mar 2, 2022 |
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SarahRita | 5 outras críticas | Aug 11, 2021 |
I wasn’t sure about the premise for this book, ONLY because earlier this year I read a similar themed one and felt that the plot (which has been optioned for a movie) was too outlandish. This book, on the other hand, was simply incredible! It’s one I will be buying and sharing with my daughter when she is older. I wish this book would have been around when I was a teenager. ⁣
Camille and her friends were some of the most realistic teenage protagonists I’ve read in a long time. They behaved and spoke like actual teens. Annabelle’s zingers would make me laugh, and I knew several girls like Bea growing up, who were naive when it came to certain subjects. When Camille went to the crisis center and had to appear in front of a judge, I felt deep seated anger and shame alongside her. ⁣
Some readers will be put off by the subject matter, but this is still an important and timely book that needs to be read, and more importantly discussed with young readers. ⁣
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brookiexlicious | 5 outras críticas | May 5, 2021 |

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Obras
4
Membros
462
Popularidade
#53,212
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
36
ISBN
24
Línguas
1

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