A Mad, Wicked Folly

Sharon Biggs Waller, Sharon Biggs

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Penguin USA
23 April 2014

Historical fiction (Children's&YA)

Welcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, social class means everything, and women are taught to be nothing more than wives and mothers.

Welcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, social class means everything, and women are taught to be nothing more than wives and mothers. Into this world comes seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling, who wants only to be an artist-a nearly impossible dream for a girl.

After Vicky poses nude for her illicit art class, she is expelled from her French finishing school. Shamed and scandalized, her parents try to marry her off to the wealthy Edmund Carrick-Humphrey. But Vicky has other things on her mind- her clandestine application to the Royal College of Art; her participation in the suffragette movement; and her growing attraction to a working-class boy who may be her muse-or may be the love of her life. As the world of debutante balls, corsets, and high society obligations closes in around her, Vicky must figure out- just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dreams?

By: Sharon Biggs Waller, Sharon Biggs
Imprint: Penguin USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 151mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 571g
ISBN: 9780670014682
ISBN 10: 0670014680
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 23 April 2014
Recommended Age: From 12 to 12 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sharon Biggs Waller moved to England in 2000, where she worked as a riding instructor at the Royal Mews in Buckingham Palace and as a freelance magazine writer. These days she is a dressage rider and trainer and lives on a ten-acre sustainable farm in Northwest Indiana with her British husband, Mark. She is the author of three non-fiction books, as well as the YA novel A Mad, Wicked Folly.

Reviews for A Mad, Wicked Folly

Nominated for the American Library Association's 2015 Amelia Bloomer Project List Nominated for the Young Adult Library Services Association's 2015 Best Fiction fof Young Adults List