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Bluegrass and Broadway

Maria Thompson Daviess

Bluegrass and Broadway

Paper book: €26.99

Digital: €10.99

Original publication
1919
Bilingual edition
12 June 2026
Pages
458
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Romance
Moods
Fall in love, Understand myself
Translated from
English

Book summary

In Kentucky, young Patricia Adair has to save Rosemeade, the family home where her grandfather lives. She writes a play based on her great-grandmother's love letters. In New York, the producer Godfrey Vandeford buys it without reading it. He is even counting on the play failing, to teach the star of his shows a lesson.

But Patricia arrives on Broadway full of confidence, and nothing goes as planned. A love story full of humour and high spirits, between the meadows of Kentucky and the wings of the theatre.

Its lively, light tone makes it an enjoyable read in the language you are learning.

The plot

A play bought to fail. In Kentucky, young Patricia Adair writes a play to save her family’s home. She draws on her great-grandmother’s love letters.

The world of the book

From Kentucky to Broadway. The “bluegrass” in the title is a meadow grass of Kentucky, a state in the southern United States known for its horses. Patricia Adair, the heroine, lives there in an old brick house…

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