Title: Margery Meets the Roses

Author: Elsie J Oxenham

Publisher: Girls Gone By

Date: 2005

Pages: 202

Format: Paperback

Description

Eighteen-year-old Margery Paine goes to Rainbows, a model village built by a young heiress, to open its first sweetshop.  She makes friends with the Rose sisters at once, but there is a reticence about them that stirs her curiosity.  A new and absorbing life, with a new little house of her own - Margery is busy and gay, and as the weeks go by and her friendship with David, the Bird-Man, grows and deepens, she is very happy.

But the shadow of tragedy and failure creeps over the community, and something more than dancing and fun is asked of Margery and the Roses, young as they are.  Then, when only the future of Rainbows seems to matter, the Roses' secret is told, and Margery earns her happy ending.