I want to live at Dunnian, that's all!

Very gentle, and I've forgotten most of it now. I wish I'd known that some of the plot is based on Mansfield Park, which I've just read, but I was too oblivious to notice.

Loved this one!

Writing: 5
Story: 5
Character Development & likability: 4

What a sweet, soothing, jaunty story. I enjoyed this immensely and really savored it. It has been my favorite of D.E. Stevenson’s so far. When you just want something light, clean, uncomplicated and pleasant to read, her books fit the bill!

Well, I started off really enjoying this book, as D.E. Stevenson is a trusted comfort-read author for me, but I could not really handle the plot suddenly switching itself into a kind of Mansfield Park retelling (though thankfully, Deb is not as pathologically shy, weak or passive as Fanny Price) all that well.
It wasn't too bad as far as retellings go and I liked Deb and Mark much better than Fanny and Edmund and yet I could not really get comfortable with it all.

Celia's House is a delightful 1920s partial retelling of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Full of joy and laughter, woven with sadness and tears, it is one of D.E. Stevenson's best works. The Dunne family is unforgettable and Dunnian, Celia's house, is a dream. (Only second to Pemberley in my list of bookish places I wish I could visit.) Set in the Scottish countryside and complete with a remarkable cast of characters, Celia's House is magnificent.

Content: some sort of ghost is seen multiple times by multiple people, which is unexplained; there's kissing (undescribed); one of the side characters is mentioned to have had an affair. There's no violence, only a little romance, and minimal bad language, very common to the time period.

Celia's House is pretty clean. I'd suggest this to readers 12+.

Highly recommended to fans of Mansfield Park and L.M. Montgomery's novels, especially The Blue Castle and her Emily of New Moon series. If you've read anything else by D.E. Stevenson, this one won't disappoint.

Not as funny as the Miss Buncle books, but lovely and satisfying, with a nice homage to Mansfield Park.

Stevenson's books are such a big bowl of comfort and cozy and this was no exception. entirely predictable and utterly satisfying.