Miss Bobbie by Ethel Turner

Miss Bobbie Reviews

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  Kit

  Miss Bobbie, a girl like no other.
  
  When her father remarries, she is sent to live with family friends, the doctor and his five boisterous boys. Initially a shy, sheltered girl, she learns 'boy things', like cricket, tree climbing, and handling mice.
  
  Bobbie learns she has a temper, and sways between trying to be very good and just exploding when she gets annoyed. There are lots of mischievous times.
  
  Ethel Turner is known for her flawed characters, she never paints them in prisms and celestial light, they are wholly imperfect, just like us. In Miss Bobbie, I think she has overdone it a wee bit, she paints our character's flaws very sharply and tempers it with not very much genuine goodness. Also I feel that the book is not long enough for us to see them all grow in character as we saw happen in seven little Australians and it's sequel. I would have liked to have gotten to know them all a little better, to understand their motivations and see them as more well rounded characters.
  
  Still and all this is an enjoyable read, never boring, never unrealistic and despite Bobbie's temper and impetuousness, or perhaps because of, she is a loveable character who you will want to see suceed.