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The Silver Slave

by Violet Winspear

Rosary was looking forward immensely to working on the love Portuguese island of Vozes do Mar, as tutor to young Gisela Ardo, and she was confident that she would be able to do it well. But Gisela’s father, the imposing Dom Duarte de Montqueriro Ardo, though otherwise. Rosary was far too young and inexperienced, he decreed. With her qualifications, he had expected a middle-aged woman… The battle of wills that sprang up between Rosary and Dom Duarte was not helped by the fact that from the first she could not deny his attraction; but he was a Portuguese aristocrat, to whom women were little better than slaves. She ought to be able to hold her own against his dominating ways.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?