I’ve read A Little Princess before but after this — after this! — why couldn’t this title have been published more widely? This was, truly, a wonderful book! I felt compelled to read this after Jenny’s post on her blog and I just had to read it. The Head of the House of Coombe and Robin have got to be one of the better pre- and post-war novels out there. And it’s not overly-dramatic. The characters have their own problems they had to defeat but it just made them all the better. While most of Robin’s development happens in the first novel, Lord Coombe actually has his small realizations regarding his own development (which is slightly ironic, given their titles). The two of them are my favorite characters in the two-novel series, though Lord Coombe probably being the most interesting!