Savage Girl, Jean Zimmerman
Savage Girl, Jean Zimmerman
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Savage Girl

Author: Jean Zimmerman

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 14 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 03/06/2014


Synopsis

“An over-the-top romp through 1870s America . . . compulsively readable.” —Oprah.com

Jean Zimmerman’s spectacular follow-up to The Orphanmaster has it all: Gilded Age romance, robber baron excess, detective story suspense, and a compelling female protagonist whom readers will fall in love with.

In 1875, the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan couple on a tour of the American West, seek out a sideshow attraction called “Savage Girl.” Her handlers avow that the wild, seemingly mute Bronwyn has been raised by wolves. Presented with the perfect blank slate to explore the power of civilized nurture, the Delegates take her back east to be introduced into high society. Cleaned up, Bronwyn is blazingly smart and darkly beautiful; as she takes steps toward her grand debut, a series of suitors find her irresistible—and begin to turn up murdered.

About The Author

Jean Zimmerman is the author The Orphanmaster and several works of nonfiction, including Love Fiercely and The Women of the House. Born in Tarrytown, New York, she is a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University School of the Arts. She lives in Ossining, New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ann

The BEST Historical Fiction I’ve read in a very long time, rich and rewarding. (I will write too much, here, but no big spoilers.) The Gilded Age years 1875-1876 come vividly alive as Hugo Delegate, the (fictitious) troubled, well-educated son of an outrageously wealthy Manhattan family tells the st......more

Goodreads review by Katiana

This book was quite confuzzling. Despite an initial interesting premise (wild child taken in by rich family to prove that nurture is superior to nature) I felt like the book was trying to settle in the audience the entire time. The character development left much to be desired. For example, the girl......more

Goodreads review by C.W.

The premise of Jean Zimmerman's "Savage Girl" is gripping: What would happen if a wealthy couple with everything they could possibly imagine came across a so-called "feral child" in a tawdry Nevada sideshow and decides to bring her back to New York and convert her into a society belle? With shades o......more