The Morning Gift is written by Eva Ibbotson and is about a girl called Ruth Berger who lives with her family in Austria. Her family is partly Jewish and decide to flee Austria, and escape to England. They send Ruth on ahead, but leave her behind when they flee and do not realise that she has not been allowed out of Austria.
Her only hope rests in an old family friend, Quinton Somerville. Her only way of earning a visa to escape Austria and be reunited with her fiance Heini, is to marry Quin and earn a joint passport and divorce as soon as she gains British Citizenship. But when the annulment takes longer than expected, and Ruth ends up at the university with Quin as her lecturer, her feelings for him take her by surprise and she begins to think that maybe Heini isn't her beloved one afterall.
I did not enjoy this book as it wasn't my type of thing and all of her books are the same. I would recommend it to older girls, who are girly girls.
By Matilda Martin
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