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Title	:	Stranger at Wildings
Author	:	Madeleine Brent
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 382 pages
Published	:	December 12th 1976 by Fawcett (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Romance. Mystery. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Gothic. Historical Romance

Stranger at Wildings Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 382 pages

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Here is a tale of charm and adventure-set in Europe around the turn of the century-whose colorful action ranges from a touring circus in Hungary to the fox-hunting society of the English countryside to the elegant circles of wealth and fashion in London. It is the story of a spirited young woman of eighteen who has left an unhappy, uncertain past in England and made a new life for herself as a trapeze artist in a small touring circus...But that forgotten past will stumble upon her one day, beside a stream in Hungary, where the circus has pitched its tents for a time. It will come in the form of a mysterious young man-handsome, appealing, yet curiously remote-whose appearance is the beginning of a strange, dangerous intrigue that involves deception, romance, disappearance and, in the end, the revelations of a family's darkest secrets.

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Original Title:	Kirkby's Changeling
ISBN:	0449230856 (ISBN13: 9780449230855)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Martin (Stranger at Wildings)

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I liked the main character in this book. Chantal was very likable, but others weren't well developed. The book was really slow plot wise and once the mystery came out, at the very end of the book, it resolved quickly. The mystery was pretty disappointing and seemed rather silly although to some people I realize it is very important. This definitely was not my favorite Madeleine Brent story.

This is pure gothic fun. It's Mary Stewart-like, so if you have read her books you will know what I mean. The story opens with Chantal, 17, making her living as a trapeze artist with the Flying Galettis. Then we discover that she ran away from her past and joined the circus at 13. THEN we discover the drama surrounding why she left, and what changed, unbeknownst to her, that will take her out of the circus and back to England to face her past and create a new life. But wait! There is a

I chose this book for my little old ladies, nursing home book club, and I think it was a great choice. The main character, Chantal, at the beginning of the book, is traveling with a circus as part of a flying trapeze act. Throughout the book we learn more and more about Chantal's past and there are multiple twists and turns as we learn what she knows and what she learns with us. The tale unfolds in the early 1900's and, maybe partially because the copy I read was very well read, it has the feel

This book follows the patterns set in other books I have read by Madeline Brent: girl abandoned, wildly foreign locale (Hungary in this book), strengthening or recreation of personality based upon trying life circumstances, and an anti-hero love interest. There are two "foreign" locations in this novel: Hungary and the circus. The girl, Chantal, was abandoned when she found out she was switched at birth and not entitled to her inheritance, nor wanted by those who were due to her unpleasant

Enjoyed this thriller very much. The title was way wide of appropriate, though. The Wildings section was only about a third. Still, that's a moot detail. Recommended to Mary Stewart fans.

In the 70s, Madeleine Brent was one of my favorite authors. Brent's books were set in exotic locales, and contained a mystery as well as a bit of suspense. I didn't know Madeleine Brent was a pen name of British writer, Peter O'Donnell until years later. I thought I'd read every Brent HR, but discovered I'd missed Stranger at Wildings. The read was a travel back to my twenties, and I loved this story as much as I loved the other Brent books. This one is set in a Victorian circus.The voice and

The story kept me reading, but when I was asked what it was about I had a hard time categorizing it. Is it a romance, a mystery, what? I was 3/4 of the way through before I felt like all the pieces were finally fitting together. Having said that, I still enjoyed reading it and, besides, who doesn't like the circus?