The awakening of Miss Prim
By: Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780349139500; 9781405526036
Subjects: Librarians; Single women; Man-woman relationships; Fiction
Work titles: Despertar de la señorita Prim
Description: Prudencia Prim is a young woman of intelligence and achievement, with a deep knowledge of literature and several letters after her name. But when she accepts the post of private librarian in the village of San Ireneo de Arnois, she is unprepared for what she encounters there. Her employer, a book-loving intellectual, is dashing yet contrarian, always ready with a critique of her cherished Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott. The neighbours, too, are capable of charm and eccentricity in equal measure, determined as they are to preserve their singular little community from the modern world outside.