(Ecco Press) Lillian and Madison first met at a fancy girls’ school; they had vastly different backgrounds yet they forged an unlikely bond that was severely tested right from the start. We meet them again about 10 years later when Madison, married to a senator from Tennessee, offers Lillian, holed up in her mother’s attic working two dead-end jobs, an interesting opportunity — to be governess to her two step-children, the senator’s from his first marriage. The twins, Bessie and Roland, are 10 years old and … (read more)
