![]() ![]() “Maintain” the house is a bit of a stretch, as several episodes clearly illustrate that the house is a living, breathing being that is quite capable of taking care of itself as well as its inhabitants. Peggy Abbot is the most recent in a long line of Abbot women who have maintained the house and played the role of landlady and surrogate mother to the dozens of women who have passed through its doors. ![]() The house in question is over 200 years old but not visible to everyone-only to troubled young women with nowhere else to go. ![]() Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a magical place to escape to when real life gets to be a bit too much, or when you’re faced with making some important decisions that you just can’t quite bring yourself to make? Menna van Praag has created such a place in her novel The House at the End of Hope Street. ![]()
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