- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: W&N; First Edition edition (13 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0297817604
- ISBN-13: 978-0297817604
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,033,344 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A haunting love story played out against the turbulent backdrop of World War One - the story of a strong, independently-minded woman caught between two men and of lovers forced apart by their different social backgrounds and the terrible circumstances of war.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I began reading Alice in Exile this morning and finished it a few minutes ago so I'd say that makes it a good lazy Sunday book. The story of Alice and Edward and what inevitably separates them is quite good, though I wish there were more details to fill in some of the gaps. Edward gave up a bit too easily for me and there were times when I felt that his character wasn't as well-developed as Alice's.
Alice's exile in Russia is interesting and exciting. Again, though, there were details that I felt were missing. For example, we never really see Alice interacting with her son, which seems a bit odd since we are told how much she loves him. Also, her epeiphany of her love for Rettenberg seems to come out of left field. And the summing up that we get in the epilogue was too pat. I would have liked to see more of Alice and Edward's reunion instead.
Still, it was a good book for a snowed-in Sunday, and if you like historical fiction, you're in for a treat.
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Have read this before but lost my copy. Really wanted it as a kindle version but sadly not available.A very good read
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One critic quoted in the blurb called this a "slimline Dr Zhivago" which sounds more like an insult than a compliment to me.
The story is quite good but, at times, it is a hairbreadth away from being a mawkish, sickly sweet period piece set in England at the outbreak of the First World War and Russia during the revolution.
This gives the author plenty of scope for scenes set in country houses in England, the trenches in France and the streets of Petrograd as the heroine follows her path between the two men in her life - both aristocrats, one English and the other Russian.
The plot is a bit far-fetched, with the pregnant Anglo-French heroine turning her back on England and heading off to Russia as a governess and being accepted by the family within a page or two.
The style is also rather clumsy as we jump from one main character to the other and catch up with what they have been doing.
To make things worse, letters crop up in an attempt to give us an eyewitness account of history, e.g. "The Tsar has abdicated! And I saw it all ...from the dress circle because our hospital looks onto the Nevsky Prospekt".
There is also dialogue that it is laughable at times, e.g. "I am calumniated.." or a claim by a Bolshevik that Tsarists are "Abject lackeys."
The ending just peters out and is completely unconvincing. Still it is not a bad read - no pun intended - and I would recommend it.
The story is quite good but, at times, it is a hairbreadth away from being a mawkish, sickly sweet period piece set in England at the outbreak of the First World War and Russia during the revolution.
This gives the author plenty of scope for scenes set in country houses in England, the trenches in France and the streets of Petrograd as the heroine follows her path between the two men in her life - both aristocrats, one English and the other Russian.
The plot is a bit far-fetched, with the pregnant Anglo-French heroine turning her back on England and heading off to Russia as a governess and being accepted by the family within a page or two.
The style is also rather clumsy as we jump from one main character to the other and catch up with what they have been doing.
To make things worse, letters crop up in an attempt to give us an eyewitness account of history, e.g. "The Tsar has abdicated! And I saw it all ...from the dress circle because our hospital looks onto the Nevsky Prospekt".
There is also dialogue that it is laughable at times, e.g. "I am calumniated.." or a claim by a Bolshevik that Tsarists are "Abject lackeys."
The ending just peters out and is completely unconvincing. Still it is not a bad read - no pun intended - and I would recommend it.
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"The Purest Expression of his True Self"
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