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4.5 ⭐️ Abigail is, confusingly, about a spoiled Budapest teenager named Gina whose father sends her away to a strict Calvinist boarding school (on the remote Hungarian Great Plain, no less!) during World War II, where she’s promptly ostracized by her classmates after snitching on them. I spent the first 40% of this book wondering wtf I was reading…but without giving too much away, once you realize what’s going on, this book slaps. It has boarding school hi-jinks and the pleasant, nostalgic vibes of a book like Anne of Green Gables, but with some resistance-of-oppressive-totalitarianism thrown in…I can see why this is one of Hungary’s most beloved books and am now dying to find an English subtitles translation of the 1970s miniseries 😭