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At Freddie's
At Freddie's | Penelope Fitzgerald
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"Freddie's" is the familiar name of the Temple Stage School, which supplies London's West End theaters with child actors for everything from Shakespeare to musicals to the Christmas pantomime. Its proprietress, Freddie Wentworth, is a formidable woman of unknown age and murky background who brings anyone she encounters under her spell -- so common an occurrence that it is known as "being Freddied." At her school, we meet dour Pierce, a teacher hopelessly smitten with enchanting Hannah; Jonathan, a child actor of great promise, and his slick rival Mattie; and Joey Blatt, who has wicked plans to rescue Freddie's from insolvency. Up to its surprising conclusion, At Freddie's is thoroughly beguiling.
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Ruthiella
Ruthiella
At Freddie's | Penelope Fitzgerald
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#OffMyShelf “Cover Buy”

A little stretch to make this fit the category. I bought it knowing nothing about it because of the EDITION rather than the cover. It matches my other books by Fitzgerald …

Fitzgerald‘s novels are short but challenging/perplexing. I enjoy the work but it takes a while to finish. This is about a run down theater school for children in London. It‘s sad in a shabby, melancholy way. The end was open, but rather chilling.

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At Freddie's | Penelope Fitzgerald
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Today I‘m in 1960s London in the theater world and The Temple Stage School run by the larger than life Ms. Freddie Wentworth. The school feeds the local theaters‘ need for child actors while nominally educating and training them and remaining barely solvent. This is Penelope Fitzgerald, so there‘s a lot required of the reader to catch nuance.

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At Freddie's | Penelope Fitzgerald
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Went to my favourite remainders bookshop over the weekend—a bigger outlet in a different mall—and, well. 🙈

Cathythoughts Very nice ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ 6y
Tanisha_A Atta girl! 👏❤️📚 6y
MaGoose You certainly have some heavy duty reading there. Way to go! 🤩👍💕 6y
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saresmoore Yay! 6y
Crazeedi 👍❤❤ 6y
erzascarletbookgasm Oh, they have Proust now. Good haul! 6y
batsy @Cathythoughts @Tanisha_A @MaGoose @saresmoore @Crazeedi Thank you, kind enablers! 😆❤️ 6y
batsy @erzascarletbookgasm Thanks! Yes, some great "new" classics, it looks like. I had to stay calm and in control ? 6y
emilyhaldi Ooohhh I enjoyed Enchanted Islands 💚 6y
Redwritinghood Hardy! 👍🏻👍🏻 6y
batsy @emilyhaldi That's great! It's definitely a #blameitonlitsy purchase :) 6y
batsy @Redwritinghood Felt like I needed more Hardy after Madding Crowd 🙂 6y
llwheeler Great haul! Jude the Obscure is a Hardy I still need to read too. 6y
readordierachel 😍😍😍 6y
LeahBergen The tagged book sounds great. Stacked! 6y
youneverarrived Great haul 😍 6y
batsy @llwheeler Thank you! I love the sound of Jude... I would like this to be my next Hardy so I hope I read it this year 😆 6y
batsy @readordierachel @youneverarrived ❤️❤️ 6y
batsy @LeahBergen Doesn't it sound lovely. And I've only heard good things about Penelope Fitzgerald, so high hopes! 6y
Suet624 Why aren‘t you the lucky one. Wonderful book haul. 6y
batsy @Suet624 Thanks 😁 6y
Suet624 There really ought to be a comma in that last post. 😁 Why, aren‘t you the lucky one? Haha. 6y
batsy @Suet624 Hahaha! Well, that's how I whine about myself, Eeyore-style, most days 😂 6y
Suet624 😁👍🏼 Me too. 😁 6y
BiblioLitten Jude the Obscure! One book I want to read and I know I never will. 🙈 6y
batsy @BiblioLitten The story of my life, lol! I'm determined to read it this year... Maybe we can be accountable to each other 😂 6y
GatheringBooks which remainders bookstore it is? is it the bbw one? 😍 6y
batsy Yup! Their bookstore chains are called BookXcess and they're my saviours and happy place 😂 6y
batsy @GatheringBooks ⬆️ 6y
GatheringBooks haven‘t visited those yet. maybe during the next bbw. 6y
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