![]() ![]() She wears lipstick and mascara until Miss Peters instructs her to wash it all off. The identical cousins are very surprised to see each other, and the initially nice Lucy turns quite nasty.Įsme is a bit like Zerelda – without the wish to be an actress. So as well as Zerelda we have a bit of the two Harries there as well. Actually they are cousins, daughters of identical twins. So much so they are mistaken for twins, though Lucy is quite boyish while Esme is very feminine. Anyway, when the girls meet her properly it turns out she looks a lot like Lucy. She was getting out of an American car, so my initial thought was that we have another Zerelda on our hands. Actually, Felicity and Susan saw her first, before we were introduced to Lucy, but it was just a glimpse of a tall willowy girl with beautifully arranged blonde curls. ![]() We meet Lucy first, a pleasant girl who has her own horse and has already palled up with horse-mad Julie. I wouldn’t say I loved it, though I thought it was a decent attempt at an Enid Blyton book. A couple of months ago I read and reviewed the first of Pamela Cox’s Malory Towers books, New Term at Malory Towers. ![]()
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