- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Phoenix (8 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0753825449
- ISBN-13: 978-0753825440
- Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 143,939 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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this winning story of misplaced passion showcases the author's budding historical sensibilities (INDEPENDENT )
Touching prose and passion make this romance a must-read (BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH )
Touching prose and passion make this romance a must-read (BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH )
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this winning story of misplaced passion showcases the author's budding historical sensibilities INDEPENDENT Touching prose and passion make this romance a must-read BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am stunned by this book. I got so engrossed in the story of Ruth and Helen, that I just wanted my journey to work and home again to be extended and very nearly went past my stop on a few occasions.
I really like the style in which Katherine McMahon writes. She writes clearly, drawing the reader quickly and deeply into her characters. I feel I have lived with Ruth and the Mayrick family at Westwich for the past few weeks and have cried alongside Helen in her sad bereavement and all that follows. The descriptions of people, places and situations are just superb. I especially like the way the author alternates between past and present and Katherine makes it quite clear whom we are following
To sum up: Footsteps is a beautiful, emotional and poignant love story which will not disappoint Katherine McMahon's readers. I count her now as one of my favourite authors and intend to read all her books. I am passing Footsteps onto my daughter so that she too may envelope herself in this beautiful story.
I really like the style in which Katherine McMahon writes. She writes clearly, drawing the reader quickly and deeply into her characters. I feel I have lived with Ruth and the Mayrick family at Westwich for the past few weeks and have cried alongside Helen in her sad bereavement and all that follows. The descriptions of people, places and situations are just superb. I especially like the way the author alternates between past and present and Katherine makes it quite clear whom we are following
To sum up: Footsteps is a beautiful, emotional and poignant love story which will not disappoint Katherine McMahon's readers. I count her now as one of my favourite authors and intend to read all her books. I am passing Footsteps onto my daughter so that she too may envelope herself in this beautiful story.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm a great fan of McMahon's other novels: The Alchemist's Daughter and The Rose of Sebastopol, so it came as a great delight that I loved this one too. It made it even more special that it's set near to where I live, McMahon has successfully captured what it's like to live on the wild windswept East Anglian coast.
Set in two different time periods: the Edwardian past and the near present, the novel explores the connection between two families and the repercussions of love and loss in both time frames. The novel is beautifully written, especially the Edwardian parts, and gives you a real sense of time and place.
After reading the novel, at a fast pace (plenty of night time reads that left me puffy-eyed in the morning!), my first instinct was to re-read it in order to make more connections between the two plots. It made me think that the past has the power to shape our futures more than we realise.
I can't wait for her next novel. McMahon is a modern Anya Seton.
Set in two different time periods: the Edwardian past and the near present, the novel explores the connection between two families and the repercussions of love and loss in both time frames. The novel is beautifully written, especially the Edwardian parts, and gives you a real sense of time and place.
After reading the novel, at a fast pace (plenty of night time reads that left me puffy-eyed in the morning!), my first instinct was to re-read it in order to make more connections between the two plots. It made me think that the past has the power to shape our futures more than we realise.
I can't wait for her next novel. McMahon is a modern Anya Seton.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was given this novel as a recommendation, and I'm so glad I was! It is the most enchanting, beautiful novel I've read for awhile. Wonderfully written, it tells the story of Helena Mayrick close to the present day, trying to overcome tragedy and embarking reluctantly at first on writing a book about her relation Donaldson, who was a famous photographer, and of her Grandmother Ruth Styles in the early part of the twentieth century, with a chapter alternately set in the present and then the past throughout the book.
Ruth Styles is the lynchpin to the whole novel and the most intriguing and devastating character, to whom all else somehow relates. She grows up by the sea in Suffolk, in a small village, and it is this place which shapes much of the lives of those involved. Young Ruth is intelligent, bright, and sparky, and has a profound and lasting effect on many around her, most noteably on Donaldson, the photographer who comes to Westwich and so begins his lifelong fascination with Ruth. As a reader, I was intensely curious and compelled to read on and find out what would happen to her, and so much does!
There is a marvelous sense of place within the novel, and it is clear the bearing the proximity of the sea has on several of the characters. The book is about the repercussions of the past; about love, forbidden love, lost love, unfulfilled love; it is about the draw of a particular landscape and how it can free or restrict a person, and it is about choices and fulfillment of potential, especially for women, which is a key theme of this author.
Highly recommended.
Ruth Styles is the lynchpin to the whole novel and the most intriguing and devastating character, to whom all else somehow relates. She grows up by the sea in Suffolk, in a small village, and it is this place which shapes much of the lives of those involved. Young Ruth is intelligent, bright, and sparky, and has a profound and lasting effect on many around her, most noteably on Donaldson, the photographer who comes to Westwich and so begins his lifelong fascination with Ruth. As a reader, I was intensely curious and compelled to read on and find out what would happen to her, and so much does!
There is a marvelous sense of place within the novel, and it is clear the bearing the proximity of the sea has on several of the characters. The book is about the repercussions of the past; about love, forbidden love, lost love, unfulfilled love; it is about the draw of a particular landscape and how it can free or restrict a person, and it is about choices and fulfillment of potential, especially for women, which is a key theme of this author.
Highly recommended.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Ok, but slow
I have read Katherine Mcmahons The Alchemists Daughter and would consider it one of my favourite reads, so i was a bit disappointed by footsteps. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Danniibee
Beautiful
This is the story of two families and their lives in the present day and the past. Unrequited love, unfaltering loyalty and the complicated relationships of family members are the... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Rebecca
Footsteps - plodding footsteps
I bought this book on the strength of my enjoyment of The Rose of Sebastopol and The Alchemist's Daughter but was very disappointed in it. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Janie
readable but disappointing
I chose this book as the synopsis described a good idea for a story and the cover fitted with this mental image I had for the characters. Read more
Published 12 months ago by carrie
geneology wrong
If Joanna was Giles and Ruths child page 300 then James was not Joannas half brother but her uncle. If Michael is Simons grandson (front chart) then he is not his son page 303. Read more
Published 13 months ago by linda
Interesting read
I enjoyed this book but did find it hard-going and rather slow at times. Saying that the story is well written and compelling in places. Read more
Published 15 months ago by J. Leckie
Delightful
This story is told in two different time periods and so very well done. Both era's are depicted so very well. Read more
Published 18 months ago by C. Bannister
Footsteps
A wonderfully detailed book of historical fiction. Katherin McMahon writes beautifully in an easy to read style and really draws the reader into her stories, which are well... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Wendyw
Enjoyable but disappointing
I did enjoy this - and I wanted to get to the end to find out how it all fitted together. However, I didn't enjoy it anything like as much as other books by McMahon. Read more
Published on 23 July 2009 by J. Baxter
Unputdownable
This is one of the best books I have read in a long while. I am actually not quite at the end and dreading it because I dont know how I will find another book that will grab my... Read more
Published on 11 April 2009 by Mrs. E. M. Bradley
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