The Governess of Highland Hall
A Novel
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4.1 • 45 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Worlds lie between the marketplaces of India and the halls of a magnificent country estate like Highland Hall. Will Julia be able to find her place when a governess is neither upstairs family nor downstairs help?
Missionary Julia Foster loves working alongside her parents, ministering and caring for young girls in India. But when the family must return to England due to illness, she readily accepts the burden for her parents’ financial support. Taking on a job at Highland Hall as governess, she quickly finds that teaching her four privileged, ill-mannered charges at a grand estate is more challenging than expected, and she isn’t sure what to make of the estate’s preoccupied master, Sir William Ramsey.
Widowed and left to care for his two young children and his deceased cousin Randolph’s two teenage girls, William is consumed with saving the estate from the financial ruin. The last thing he needs is any distraction coming from the kindhearted-yet-determined governess who seems to be quietly transforming his household with her persuasive personality, vibrant prayer life, and strong faith.
While both are tending past wounds and guarding fragile secrets, Julia and William are determined to do what it takes to save their families—common ground that proves fertile for unexpected feelings. But will William choose Julia’s steadfast heart and faith over the wealth and power he needs to secure Highland Hall’s future?
Customer Reviews
Very repetitive
This is clearly a subtle copy of Jane Eyre. That’s fine, but what isn’t fine is the crazy repetitive emotional expressions in almost every paragraph intro, especially about the heart. “Heart welled” “heart burst” “heart broke”. And we more than get that William doesn’t trust women, but it doesn’t have to be repeated to us so many times. The money issue is also constantly repeated. The book has a good message about the Christian faith, but when Christian themes are used, then the book should be written with excellence. The side stories felt unnecessary, more like fillers. There were definitely meaningful and thoughtful Christian messages written out and I give kudos to the author for the boldness to disciple, I just think this book can be so much more, especially since it’s a spinoff from a beautiful classic that many of us love. The best governess romance stories are usually written in first person with only the heroine’s view throughout the book, which is how the Jane Eyre novel was written. The modern books give the cheesy version of writing the guy’s views in addition to the heroine’s views, from start to finish and removes the mystery. I usually stop reading at the first chapter because of that, but I gave this book an exception, because the guy’s side was not too bad at first, but then quickly became repetitive. I love to write short stories and this book could be a short story if all the fillers and repetitive sentences were removed and would probably be 50 pages long. I recommend for the author to read an Ernest Hemingway book for inspiration.
Seriously bad imitation of Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte write this book in 1847. Sorry that this author had to ruin it with her cheap attempt to copy it.