The Angelic Avengers

First published in English in 1946, this introspective novel by Pierre Andrézel (aka Karen Blixen) is set in England and France during the 1840s and tells the story of two young, innocent girls and the horrors they must endure during this time. Lucan has been orphaned and Zosine has been deserted, and London is a hostile place for two young girls without a home. Bound together by poverty, grief and their shared years at school, they set out to make a future for themselves in new surroundings. Th