![]() ![]() ![]() Although the book primarily follows the adventures of Tobey, and her steady date Brose ( "I am pretty crazy about Brose. People might have called me Henny for short, and I would have simply died." This is the first of six books Rosamond du Jardin wrote about Tobey Heydon (and her family)-books that followed Tobey through high school, college and finally marriage. Otherwise it would have been too ghastly. But, thank Heaven, my grandmother's maiden name was Tobey. My mother got sort of desperate when her third child turned out to be another girl, so she named me for my father. Actually, Tobey is my middle name and my first is Henrietta. "My name is Tobey Heydon and I am practically seventeen years old, since my sixteenth birthday was five whole months ago. And to me, reading this in the late 70s, it hardly showed its age at all. The copyright date on my battered, beloved copy of this book is March 1971, almost thirty years after its first publication in the early 1940s. Wait till the Prom, and you can see for yourself!" Tobey's fight with Brose Gilman has left her without a date-so she creates a Dream Man. ![]()
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