Miss Tredgold, a teacher from England, is employed as a governess (not a "nanny"), in America, to a four year-old Florentyna, the protagonist in Jeffrey Archer's 'The Prodigal daughter'. The reason being that Florentyna's dad doesn't want anyone in his daughter's school to have an advantage over her. Little does he know that Miss Tredgold would come to mean more than a governess to his daughter: a friend, philosopher and guide in her journey to fulfill great ambitions.
She threatened the dad to give Florentyna lessons of Polish history so that she overcame her insecurity of her Polish background and led her to shut the name-callers in her class at just five years of age. By teaching valuable skills and life-lessons, she prepared her to reach her potential - analyzing news articles, demonstrating the importance of "contingency" plans or enabling her to rise after a hard failure. A person who filled hope in her dad's absence though she herself was negative about his return from war.
I read the book when I was fifteen; a part of me was jealous of Florentyna and a part was simply grateful for having Miss Tredgold's positive influence when it was still not too late.
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