The Rose Round. This item is unavailable.The Rose Round

13-year old Matt is spending the holidays at the dilapidated Woodhall mansion where his spirited step-sister Caroline works as cook. In a faded rose garden Matt meets Alix, proud old Madame Ayre's granddaughter, and is introduced to the tension-filled relationship between the embittered mother and her crippled son Theo. Matt must learn to judge character rather than appearances as Theo strives to turn the house into a home for orphans. Alix, through her willful foolishness, puts Theo's life in danger and brings a dramatic confrontation: Christian hope versus fatal self-pride. A timeless book with a fast-paced plot and vivid characters.

England, 1950's
RL4.3
Of read-aloud interest ages 11-up

Meriol Trevor (1919-2000) graduated from Oxford in 1942. Her first publications were books for children and historical novels. Miss Trevor said, “In all my books for children I have concentrated on personal relations, usually with the more serious confrontations between the adults—but also adult/child and child with child—occasioned by the general events going on at the time.” This emphasis on relationship is a key feature in all of her books. Miss Trevor also wrote a number of acclaimed biographies—including ones on Pope St. John XXIII, St. Philip Neri and St. John Henry Newman. In 1967 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.