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Title: A reasonably well written Mary Sue piece of fiction.
Review: Is the only way I can describe this. Every idea presented to Phryne (no matter how brillant) could be improved only with Phyrne's fantasticness. She's everyone's agony aunt and best friend (including her lover's new wife), pretty, modern,. annoyingly perfect and has an disturbing need to have the last word with everyone. She does no wrong unless you count grating on the reader's nerves.Of the characters, there was far too little friction/interaction between them. Everyone seemed to accept what Phryne said and did we ever find out what happened to Phyrne's servants who wanted to leave because of Phryne's beliefs? They just seemed to disappear at the end.And who names their kid Phyrne? Rather normal for the 60's but the 30's?On the positive note.. at least the plotline was decent.Ms Greenwood nice try if this was a first book but this really needs an editor.
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