Bøger af Elaine Deprince

On the day of my birth, my mother had already decided that she wanted to give me away. She had made this decision even though she had not yet known the extent of the problems that would confront me. As it turned out, there were many, including the fact that I was not born a beautiful baby.Actually, I was considered to be quite ugly, disfigured by a cleft lip and palate that left a gaping hole in the middle of my face. In addition, I was born deaf, covered with bruises, and showed signs of haemophilia, an ancient life-threatening hereditary bleeding disorder.I longed to be hugged, kissed, and cuddled in my mother's arms, but that was not about to happen. Instead, I spent months in a hospital crib, as I recovered from complicated facial surgery. Following the surgery, I was placed in a dark room of a foster home, and left to languish in loneliness for several months.On a dark snowy night, shortly before Christmas, a man and woman arrived at the home of my foster parents. They had driven five hundred miles through a blizzard, and requested to see me... see me! No one had ever before asked to see me! My only previous visits away from the foster home were trips to the hospital for painful medical procedures.

Elaine Grey is a gentle young woman, full of generosity, kindness, and determination. Though her father died when she was young, the strong women in her life support her and inspire her: her mother, her governess, and her wealthy sponsor - Lady Jayne Vining. Elaine's hope is to study medicine, nearly an impossibility in Victorian England. Then, when she is orphaned, and loses Lady Jayne as well, her hope grinds to a halt. She has no choice than to serve as governess to Lady Jayne's granddaughters: Rose and Violet. Shortly after Elaine moves in with their family, Rose and Violet become ill with a mysterious disease. VICTORIAN SNOWFLAKES is another young adult fiction by Elaine DePrince, author of FÜR ÉLISE: The Story of My Lives, and co-author of the memoir, TAKING FLIGHT: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina.