Step families via death & remarriage were much more common than via divorce. Mary Lou and Verity were "sisters by marriage", which is the angle Mary Lou took with some miserable baggage that got shuffled off to the Chalet School while her step sister was suffering some horrible disability.
That doesn't make your point about problem novels any less valid, though.
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Re: Ready Made Family
Date: 2014-11-22 10:58 pm (UTC)That doesn't make your point about problem novels any less valid, though.