The title says it all: no one wants this governess. Lady Jane's household has cycled through candidates like water through a sieve, each one fleeing the legendary chaos of her two daughters, Gwendolen and Evelyn. But when yet another respectable young woman arrives at the door, her lack of conventional appeal becomes the very thing that might finally tip the scales. Perhaps only someone society has already dismissed can handle two girls who seem determined to remain utterly ungovernable. F. Marion Crawford brings his signature wit to this comedy of manners, pitting the rigid expectations of Victorian household management against a family whose only consistency is its rebellion. The "undesirable" governess may be the only one foolish enough to stay, and perhaps the only one clever enough to survive.
