(For evidence of how deep this love goes, bear in mind that I named my daughter Laura after her, as I explained in this post on my personal blog.) My long-standing love of Laura Ingalls Wilder‘s fictionalised memoirs of her childhood as an early American pioneer primed me to enjoy this novel. When I was offered a free review copy of US author and writing teacher Cindy Rinaman Marsch’s debut novel, I jumped to accept, drawn in by the beautiful cover and the story of the novel’s origin: the imagining of a back-story behind the antique diaries of the character whose name give the book its title: Rosette.
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