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Not All Tarts are Apple
by
Pip Granger
It is part of the Soho #2 series and is a historical fiction in a paperback edition that was published by Penguin on August 26, 2003 and has 224 pages.
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Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Trouble in Paradise, The Widow Ginger, No Peace for the Wicked
This is the second in the Soho historical fiction series (chronologically) and picks up seven years after Trouble in Paradise with the focus centered on Rosa, the baby Zelda foresaw as coming into Bert and Maggie’s life.
My Take
While Not All Tarts are Apple doesn’t have that intense pull that Trouble in Paradise, 1, did, I still couldn’t put it down for all the drama that rose up around our Rosa. Charlie Fluck is back, and he’s the main source of the threats against her as well as one of the methods by which we learn of Cassandra’s background. I can see this background and the corporate control it teeters over continuing onto a third novel…please??!?!!!
I suspect most parents would find Rosa’s childhood absolutely appalling and, I cannot disagree that Rosa learns a lot about the seamy side of life that I would prefer children never learn but she is being raised with such an incredible amount of love by a huge circle of friends that I can only wish that more kids had her opportunities. She is loved. She is cared for. She is protected by a neighborhood. Kids today should be so lucky.
