- Paperback: 502 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd (1 July 1993)
- ISBN-10: 0671718169
- ISBN-13: 978-0671718169
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,176,326 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This is a long book, but that's fine, because I didn't really want it to end. Set just before the war in 1914, it reminded me a bit of Downton Abbey. There are the same conflicts between the apparently happy, wealthy facade of the Edwardian aristocracy and the secret passions seething beneath the surface. This is a story of two sisters - one in London, one in Ulster - who between them uncover a whole world of horrors: the cruelty of men towards suffragettes, the scandal of child prostitution, the poverty of striking industrial workers, and for one, the awful secret of her husband's homosexuality. Into this mix (as if it were not enough) is thrown the spectre of a German plot to provoke civil war in Ulster, the kidnap of a young boy, and the blackmailing of his parents. So there's an awful lot going on; but the author has woven it all together very cleverly. I thought it was well written, easy to read, and hard to put down.
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A wonderful read
5 April 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
This is a long book, but that's fine, because I didn't really want it to end. Set just before the war in 1914, it reminded me a bit of Downton Abbey. There are the same conflicts between the apparently happy, wealthy facade of the Edwardian aristocracy and the secret passions seething beneath the surface. This is a story of two sisters - one in London, one in Ulster - who between them uncover a whole world of horrors: the cruelty of men towards suffragettes, the scandal of child prostitution, the poverty of striking industrial workers, and for one, the awful secret of her husband's homosexuality. Into this mix (as if it were not enough) is thrown the spectre of a German plot to provoke civil war in Ulster, the kidnap of a young boy, and the blackmailing of his parents. So there's an awful lot going on; but the author has woven it all together very cleverly. I thought it was well written, easy to read, and hard to put down.
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