NOT ALL TARTS ARE APPLE

Not All Tarts Are Apple
Pip Granger
ISBN: 1-59058-033-8
Poisoned Pen Press
Publication Date: October 20, 2002
219 Pages
$24.95

Not All Tarts Are Apple

What a delightful and enchanting read! Rosie is a seven year old who lives with her adopted grandparents Bert and Maggie. The mystery is simply finding out about Rosie’s real mother and the reasons that Rosie is not with her.

The characters are extremely believable and usually lovable. I found myself easily visualizing all of them due to the author’s obvious love of each of them. Rosie’s mother is a “tart”, but the reader comes to an understanding of her, the Perfumed Lady, as the plot develops around her past and her type of love for her daughter.

With the setting being in England at the time of coronation, all the events surrounding this are logical and realistic. Pip Granger makes the reader feel as if they were also involved in this wondrous event.

Thoroughly delightful!

I am looking forward to more books by this author.