num_pages: 282
description: Originally published in Britain as Beyond the Orchid House.Four independent-minded sisters come of age in the early 1900s - and four interwoven novels tell their stories, each through a different sister's eyes.The year is 1910, and the four Purcell sisters have only each other. Their mother has died, leaving them orphans in a rambling country estate. But with the help of the Mackenzies - their guardian and his family, whom the sisters come to love in very different ways - Sarah, Frances, Julia, and Gwen find the courage to follow their own paths in a world that is rapidly changing. Avid readers and fans of historical-fiction classics will love these spirited heroines - named "the Little Women of our times" by the TIMES of London - and will be thoroughly absorbed by their intertwining tales, full of feistiness, creativity, and young romance.
language: English
title: Gwen's Story
titlecomplete: Gwen's Story
genres: Historical, 20th Century, Young Adult Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, World War I, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 164
places: England, Germany
series: The Quantock Quartet
publisher: Candlewick Press