The Governess’s Guide to Spells and Managing Misfit Marquesses (The Parasol Academy #2)

The Governess’s Guide to Spells and Managing Misfit Marquesses (The Parasol Academy #2)

Author: Amy Rose Bennett Listening Length: 13h 45m

Mary Poppins meets My Fair Lady in a feel-good blend of cozy fantasy magic, historical romance, humor, and Victorian era charm, as a recent graduate of the Parasol Academy for Exceptional Nannies and Governesses finds herself at sea on a ship commanded by a captivating Irishman. Hermina Davenport can hardly believe the...

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In Which Physiognomy Is Admired and (Some but Not All) Confidences Are Shared; And the Hue of Irish Whisky Is Reflected Upon …

“He had been looking two minutes at the fire … and I had been looking the same length of time at him … when, turning suddenly … he caught my gaze fastened on his physiognomy … ‘You examine me, Miss Eyre,’ said he … ‘do you think me handsome?’”

Phinn looked up from Jane Eyre, the copy Miss Davenport had selected from Hatchards two weeks ago.

“Well, what-what do you think, Miss Dav-Davenport?” he asked, catching her gaze which, just like Miss Jane Eyre’s, had been resting on his face.