11/20/2013

Waiting on Wednesday #47: A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller



Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature created by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This is where you showcase an upcoming release you're anxiously awaiting!

This week, I'm waiting on:
A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller.

Expected Publication: January 23, 2014.
by: Viking Juvenile.

Goodreads Blurb:
Welcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, social class means everything, and women are taught to be nothing more than wives and mothers. Into this world comes seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling, who wants only to be an artist—a nearly impossible dream for a girl.
            
After Vicky poses nude for her illicit art class, she is expelled from her French finishing school. Shamed and scandalized, her parents try to marry her off to the wealthy Edmund Carrick-Humphrey. But Vicky has other things on her mind: her clandestine application to the Royal College of Art; her participation in the suffragette movement; and her growing attraction to a working-class boy who may be her muse—or may be the love of her life. As the world of debutante balls, corsets, and high society obligations closes in around her, Vicky must figure out: just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dreams?


Why I'm excited:
More historical fiction!!! I love me some historical. Also, a girl who wants to be an artist but is stuck in a disapproving high society? Cue rebellion! Count me in!

What are you waiting on this week?

3 comments:

  1. oooh, great pick. I just go this the other day, it sounds like a good one,

    Jenea @ Books Live Forever's WoW

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  2. I'm all excited about this book too! It sounds like a lot of fun and I like that it's drama filled and historical!
    My WoW

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  3. Wait so I have this one as well lol! Two other bloggers I know really want to read this one, and I might let at least one of them borrow it - it depends on if I read it soon - but if you don't read it within a couple months, hit me up! That and Defy. Oh my gosh. The ARC/eARC hole that I am in...

    Check out my WoW post!

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