- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd (1 April 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0704346249
- ISBN-13: 978-0704346246
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,126,037 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When Olivia's mother dies and her grave is dug in the garden of the family home, a skeleton of a 17th-century woman is uncovered. The remains are crushed, but one thing remains intact - a scold's bridle. Only when Olivia unearths the story of the woman does she begin to understand her own passions.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Voices from the past, speaking to Olivia: very much in the present. A skeleton uncovered in the garden of Olivia's home leads her into a journey of discovery. A discovery not only of the identity of the skeleton but also the identity of herself. This beautifully-crafted novel is part mystery, part history and part love story. Weaving back and forth Steve Davies holds the reader from the first page until the last, creating vivid scenes from the Seventeenth Century and interlacing them with scenes from the present. There is much humour in the novel, ranging from bawdy to sarcastic and some just plain 'daft' ! It is a novel which can be read and read again. Each time, the reader will find something new. By the end of the novel you will be hooked on the Seventeenth Century and you will want to find out more. By good fortune, you need look no further than Stevie Davies's non-fiction work of the same era, Unbridled Spirits: Women Of the English Revolution: 1640-1660. It was whilst writing this book that Stevie Davies was inspired to write her novel, Impassioned Clay.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This intense novel traces the story of a wayward teenager into adulthood, her withdrawl of the world and obsession with the bones of a woman tortured to death in her back garden.
From the minute you pick up this book you'll feel the earthy rebelliousness of its main charachter, it's the sort of book that draws you in like you were staring into an abyss.
I've never read a more meditative study of family, death, grief and ultimate joy.
4 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The account of a caustic and intense historian, Olivia, researching the death of a mentally disturbed Quaker is initially dynamic in the relative distance Olivia, for all her intensity, maintains from her subject. Yet the more she becomes consumed in her research, the more didactic and ranting the novel becomes. Ultimately, rather than understanding the past, too easily, Davies condemns it from her enlightened perspective.
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