Chasing Shadows
A Novel
by Louisa Dawkins
From Library Journal: Ten-year-old Joanna Drayton adores her older brother, James, and her glamourous governess, Miss Cathcart. But when her self-centered father discovers that the governess and James have become lovers, he fires her and alienates him. A bewildered Joanna is sent to boarding school, where she leads a miserable life.
James doesn't rescue her. Miss Cathcart doesn't keep in touch. Yet, despite her isolation, Joanna not only survives but becomes a successful concert pianist. All the characters but Joanna are so selfish it is hard to empathize with anyone.
Confusing chronology at the book's start compounds the difficulty of relating to Joanna's story.--Kathy Piehl, Mankato State Univ., Minn. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Chasing Shadows: A Novel
March 29, 1988, Houghton Mifflin Company
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- First Houghton Mifflin ed. Mar '88
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The upper-class English family of Henry and Barbara Drayton begins an inevitable disintegration when their school-age son is discovered to be having an affair with his governess and their daughter, Joanna, comes of age as she travels the world looking for her fleeing brother.--FictionDB
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