![]() (Cue lead-up to adoption and happy ending for all.) Mandy’s so engrossed her cottage life that she takes a big risk that puts her in danger-until she’s rescued by an unexpected friend. The cottage starts to feel more and more like home-but Mandy’s secret life takes a toll on the rest of her life, with her friends frustrated by her constant sneaking off and the head of the orphanage frustrated by disappearing tools and supplies Mandy’s “borrowed” for her project. She decides a lonely cottage and a lonely girl were meant for each other and sets to work cleaning and cozying up the cottage and its garden. ![]() One day, she climbs the orphanage wall and discovers a little cottage that appears to be completely deserted. She has plenty of friends and there’s nothing even remotely Dickensian going on, but still, she longs for a home and a family of her own. Mandy is a 10-year-old girl living at a perfectly nice orphanage in a small British village. Mandy is pure comfort reading goodness at its best-you know pretty much from page one that everything is going to turn out okay and people are going to live happily ever after, and that’s just fine. ![]() ![]() Sometimes, you want a book that challenges you to think deeper and harder. ![]()
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