Which book is this?

[Janet]

Hmm - that's quite a big clue to give away when there has only been one guess!

 

It's fiction and was published in the early twentieth century.

[frankie]

From what I can 'feel' from the quote, the character's Mom possibly died (?) and therefore the character was sent away to live somewhere else, and now that she finally got a minute to herself in her new surroundings, she's thinking of her (?) Mom and her advice... Hm!

 

And I somehow have a feeling the character is relatively young, under 20 or so...

Edited November 22, 2013 by frankie

[Janet]

Her mother isn't dead.

 

It's not necessarily an adult's book...

[chesilbeach]

Hmm, I was going to try I Capture The Castle although I can't remember if their mother is dead or not!

[frankie]

Wohoo for Mom not being dead!

[Janet]

Lol, frankie!

 

No, not I Capture the Castle.     Earlier than that.

[Athena]

A female author?

[Janet]

Yes.

[apacheflower]

I have no clue but will cont to watch to see what the book could be......all I knw is it's a female author, fiction, twentieth , century and its probably ya (young adult)

[chaliepud]

Is it a famous book?

[Janet]

Is it a famous book?

Yup! 

[Athena]

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins? I don't know, just trying something.

 

EDIT: Now that I think about it, that's not 20th century I think.. not sure when the books were written.. if it was before 2000 or after.

Edited November 24, 2013 by Athena

[chesilbeach]

I remember you reading Pollyanna which is about the right time frame, but I thought her mother died, so I don't think it's right, but I'll give it a go anyway.

[chaliepud]

The Secret Garden?

[Janet]

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins? I don't know, just trying something.

 

EDIT: Now that I think about it, that's not 20th century I think.. not sure when the books were written.. if it was before 2000 or after.

It was written in the early 1900s.

 

I remember you reading Pollyanna which is about the right time frame, but I thought her mother died, so I don't think it's right, but I'll give it a go anyway.

The Secret Garden?

You guys are definitely along the right lines. 

 

Another quote, which might be the one that gives it all away!

 

"Yes - I may say great hopes.  But keep your secret a little longer.  Wouldn't do to upset your mother with a false hope, would it?"  "Oh, but it isn't false!" said Xxxxxx; "I KNOW you can do it.  I knew you could when I wrote.  It isn't a false hope, is it?" 

 

"No," he said, "I don't think it's a false hope or I wouldn't have told you."

[Vimes]

Is it something like What Katie Did?

[chaliepud]

Or something like Heidi, could be Clara's mother? Though think she may just have had a father on the scene?

 

Let's try and narrow it down! Was it British?

[Janet]

It's not that - it's by an English author. 

 

ETA: I was posting at the same time as you, Hayley.  It's not Heidi either.  You are all on the right lines but this is an English classic children's book.    (And one of my favourite stories, although I haven't read it for some time).

Edited November 24, 2013 by Janet

[chesilbeach]

What about A Little Princess?

[chaliepud]

The Little Prince?

[Janet]

No - neither of those  - and not Frances Hodgson Burnett - but you are a hair's breadth away from being right! 

[chesilbeach]

Is the author E. Nesbit?

[Janet]

Might be!   

[Janet]

I had no idea this would take so long - I thought someone would get it straight away - sorry. 

 

*This* should give it away.

 

"They were not the ******* ******* to begin with.   I don't suppose they had ever thought about ******** except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's.  They were just ordinary suburban ********, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath-room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good deal of white paint, and 'every modern convenience', as the house-agents say."

[Athena]

I don't think I know this one . But I hope someone does!