How I Found the Perfect Dress by Maryrose Wood

There were a number of professional objects, such as the tools owned by onboard carpenters, or the ointments and medicine flasks used by the surgeon.

We were able to recover a number of chests from the site, so we could study collections of objects and ascertain which crew members might own which possessions. As the ship was rapidly buried in very fine silt, a lot of their possessions are very well preserved, including wood, leather, human and animal bones.

The Mary Rose was the crew’s home and their workspace. Even with the normal crew size of around 400, conditions would have been very crowded. There were 415 crew members listed in 1513, but during wartime operations there would have been more soldiers on board, with numbers perhaps swelling to around 700 men in total. The artefacts found on board give us a unique insight into what their life was like. Servants also appear on some of the later pay rolls. The first recorded crew list for the Mary Rose dates back to 1513 and consists of mariners, soldiers and gunners, although their names were not given.

However, the Mary Rose enables us to see day-to-day life in all its wonderful detail. For instance, graves or ritual sites only contain a small fraction of day-to-day objects. If you’d like to learn about Maryrose Wood, you can do so on her website archaeological sites from the past have been filtered by the society that made them. Still four stars, as it was a fairly good read, but not something I’d expect to pick up again. While there is obvious conflict involved for Morgan, her family seemed superfluous. Morgan’s sister, Tammy, seems far younger than her age, but that might be because she’s only seen as the baby of the family. Within the novel there are countless fights and obvious issues between Morgan’s parents, yet this is never fully resolved. That being said, the plot didn’t have much substance, and the characters didn’t grow much throughout the story. It was interesting and quirky, something that’d be great to bring to a beach. Somehow she has to break the spell on her date, help plan the prom, and find the perfect dress. In his dreams he’s being forced to dance ’til dawn with the faeries, who want to boogie with him for eternity. It seems that when Morgan crossed the portal as Morganne, a spell was cast on Colin. Now she’s back to her painfully normal life and her relationship with Colin has fizzled to the occasional e-mail, until he writes saying he’s coming to Connecticut, just in time for the prom.īut when he arrives, he’s exhausted. On a bike tour of Ireland last summer, Morgan Rawlinson fell for Colin, the hunky guide, and entered a portal that turned her into the goddess Morganne. Genre: Young Adult Fantasy/YA Urban Fantasy

How I Found the Perfect Dress by Maryrose Wood