- Paperback: 505 pages
- Publisher: Headline Feature; New edition edition (2 Nov 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747260060
- ISBN-13: 978-0747260066
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11.4 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,083,863 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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HARPERS & QUEEN
'This is an exciting, action-packed novel, cleanly written and elegantly plotted'
THE TIMES
'A dazzling novel by one of Britain's most acclaimed thriller writers'
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Jam packed with twists and turns,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Sea Garden (Paperback)
There is an instant connection with the main character, Victoria, and as the story unfolds, you realise that past and present merge into one, intertwined with the marvelous backdrop of Trelise. The story just keeps twisting and developing in ways that keep you hooked and desperately wanting to jump ahead and find out what will happen. A very good read of a very high standard. I will definately be watching out for more by this author.
5.0 out of 5 stars
a terrific book,
By Angus Jenkinson "angusjenkinson" (Cambridgeshire, England) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Sea Garden (Paperback)
I really don't understand some of the comments in some of the reviews. This is a seriously well-written, well plotted and interesting book. It is probably just off the Booker prize level (at its best), but it's a fine book.
There is some criticism about the sex: where does that come from? There's hardly any in it (although much of the book turns around sexual themes) and what there is is brief, relevant, well described. Then some find it losing its way towards the end: actually here is where it starts to hot up as all the interesting back stories start to come together. One feature that I find intriguing is that as you read it there is a sense of thriller, a sense of something about to happen, of something to be solved, and yet at no point do you follow a conventional thriller process. The principal character, Victoria, discovers boxes of old family archives and starts studying them. well she is a museum curator, so that's what museum curators do when they have enough money and leisure to follow their own interest. But so what? What is she searching for? Is there some great puzzle that needs solving? We're not really told that there is; instead we Discover some rich and interesting characters and tales from the family back story. There is an old skeleton found in the garden, but that's to be expected in a large estate that goes back to mediaeval times. You don't actually find that there really is a mystery that really has to be solved until the end when it emerges brilliantly out of the story. You don't need to be interested in gardens or sailing, but if you enjoy characters and a bit of a mystery you should really like this book.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Makes you smell the sea,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Sea Garden (Paperback)
This was one of those rare books that when I started, I just couldn't put down. The merging of past and present is skillfully done, at the atmosphere of the location well-conveyed. After the body of the book, I was a little disappointed by the ending; it seemed a little trite and rushed. I agree with the bad sex, though, although thankfully there wasn't much of it.
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