Books by Judy Blundell
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review 1: This story is set in New York in the heyday of Gangsters, night clubs and cabaret dancers at the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. If follows the life of a young starlet as she tried to make her way into the big time on Broadway and how she is influenced by the different peopl...
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review 1: This one was...weird. I'm used to the Dear America books from my childhood, which were usually less about adventure and more about history. It seems like most of the books in the relaunch are the opposite. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing, but it doesn't seem to fit the...
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review 1: Describing a novel as a "coming of age" story is all too easy, and yet that description really suits this novel. Evie is 15, on the cusp of 16; all innocence and gawkiness at the beginning of the story, she has become "pretty" without realising yet. Evie is the only child of a ...
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review 1: In this book by Judy Blundell a lot is happening. Kit, the main character is a struggling dancer/actor/singer. It's hard enough to find a job as a dancer in New York, but with her boyfriend Billy going to war she is very overwhelmed. She needs a lot of help. That is where Nate, B...
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review 1: This is one of those books that just didn't talk about the things I was interested in! I checked it out for the 50's New York and Broadway setting, but it was much more about the mob and family stuff. And a lot of the characters just weren't very pleasant people to read about it....