Starred review from July 1, 2015
Good help is hard to find. Everett Mulberry needs someone who's not only good but also courageous to care for the three creatively diabolical children he inherited when his best friend and his wife were killed. The kids have run off every nanny the employment agency has to offer. Every nanny, that is, except one. Millie Longfellow has been fired from position after position because she encourages children to be children, often with disastrous results. Worse than that, she just can't seem to understand her place in the stuffy, stratified upper society of 1882 New York. What seems to be the last chance for both Millie and Everett turns into the best opportunity they've ever had, because true love doesn't recognize social class, and courage comes in many guises. Turano (After a Fashion, 2015), known for her delightfully humorous tales, has done it again with her irresistible blend of perplexed hero, imperturbable heroine, perpetually perturbed peacocks, dastardly villain, and of course, Jane Austen.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)