![]() ![]() Sullivan’s wry and evocative omniscient voice makes Hannah and Anna’s escapades a pleasure to read, though it tells rather than shows too often. Anna, a self-centered social climber painted in refreshing shades of gray, delights in her new position as the Liripips’ refugee relative, but worries about the mysterious mission her Nazi-sympathizer father wants her to carry out. A freethinking child of Weimar-era Berlin, the irrepressible Hannah shocks her stuffy British employers, unselfconsciously lecturing the lusty Lord Liripip on droit du seigneur and singing opera among the yew trees by night. ![]() ![]() After Kristallnacht, German-Jewish Hannah arrives in England to stay with her snobbish relatives, but she is mistaken for kitchen maid Anna. Sullivan ( Ladies in Waiting) presents a charming tale of mistaken identity, one that’s perhaps too lightweight for its historical setting. ![]()
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