- Paperback: 608 pages
- Publisher: Flame; New Ed edition (5 Sep 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340767561
- ISBN-13: 978-0340767566
- Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 3.8 x 19.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 900,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'In Stella, Sarah has created a fabulous character whose talent and stardom I completely believed in ... All in all a wonderful novel.' -- Lisa Eveleigh (literary agent) 'An evocative novel.' -- Woman & Home 'Ambitious ... an epic that takes enduring love as its theme.' -- Good Housekeeping 'A good historical saga can be just the thing for the long winter nights and Sarah Harrison's GRASS MEMORIAL fits the bill' -- Red Magazine 'This is Harrison's writing at her best, seamlessly interweaving her characters and their lives until they merge into brilliant focus at the end.' -- Wigan Evening Mail 'A great novel ... A fascinating, multi-layered book which will have you reaching for the tissues.' -- Metro North East 'An epic tale of love and war.' -- Choice 'A real curl up in your favourite chair, relax and enjoy kind of book.' -- Anglian Evergreen An evocative, superbly realised epic that effortlessly melds three very different lives and times. -- Books Magazine 'an intelligently written novel that ingeniously pulls together three very different narrative strands ... Several cuts above the usual genre but every bit as readable.' -- Sainsbury's Magazine 'an intelligently written novel that ingeniously pulls together three very different narrative strands ... Several cuts above the usual genre but every bit as readable.' -- Sainsbury's Magazine
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'In Stella, Sarah has created a fabulous character whose talent and stardom I completely believed in . . . All in all a wonderful novel.' (Lisa Eveleigh (literary agent) )
'An evocative novel.' (Woman & Home )
'Ambitious . . . an epic that takes enduring love as its theme.' (Good Housekeeping )
'A good historical saga can be just the thing for the long winter nights and Sarah Harrison's GRASS MEMORIAL fits the bill' (Red Magazine )
'This is Harrison's writing at her best, seamlessly interweaving her characters and their lives until they merge into brilliant focus at the end.' (Wigan Evening Mail )
'A great novel . . . A fascinating, multi-layered book which will have you reaching for the tissues.' (Metro North East )
'An epic tale of love and war.' (Choice )
'A real curl up in your favourite chair, relax and enjoy kind of book.' (Anglian Evergreen )
An evocative, superbly realised epic that effortlessly melds three very different lives and times. (Books Magazine )
'an intelligently written novel that ingeniously pulls together three very different narrative strands . . . Several cuts above the usual genre but every bit as readable.' (Sainsbury's Magazine )
'An evocative novel.' (Woman & Home )
'Ambitious . . . an epic that takes enduring love as its theme.' (Good Housekeeping )
'A good historical saga can be just the thing for the long winter nights and Sarah Harrison's GRASS MEMORIAL fits the bill' (Red Magazine )
'This is Harrison's writing at her best, seamlessly interweaving her characters and their lives until they merge into brilliant focus at the end.' (Wigan Evening Mail )
'A great novel . . . A fascinating, multi-layered book which will have you reaching for the tissues.' (Metro North East )
'An epic tale of love and war.' (Choice )
'A real curl up in your favourite chair, relax and enjoy kind of book.' (Anglian Evergreen )
An evocative, superbly realised epic that effortlessly melds three very different lives and times. (Books Magazine )
'an intelligently written novel that ingeniously pulls together three very different narrative strands . . . Several cuts above the usual genre but every bit as readable.' (Sainsbury's Magazine )
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book has got it all: history, war, love, loss and heartache. Harrison blends the story of three very different characters and three very different periods in history together brilliantly. The story of Harry sent off to fight in the Crimean War, the story of Spencer the American Fighter Pilot sent to fight during the Second World War in Britian and the story of Stella, set during the present, the feisty lead singer/songwriter of a band who works too hard and plays too hard. At first the three stories run independantly but as the book progresses we see how various links unfold which connect the characters over the centuries. Compelling, page turning, and very moving this book has a great sense of the period of time in which the various stories are set and a great sense of the sweep of history. Loved it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Like the curate's egg, this novel was only "good in parts" and from my own point of view suffered greatly in comparison with "The Dreaming Stones" which I'd just finished reading. This is a novel of 3 intertwined stories, all based around the White Horse monument, hence the title of the book. I began the book with high hopes, having enjoyed her subsequent novel (as mentioned earlier). However, in this one, I really found it hard to empathize with, or even like, the characters. The story of the soldier in the Crimean war was hard to get into; I found those parts of the book hard going - long descriptions of men going to war and living through pretty grim times was pretty depressing and which I found myself skimming over in the end. OK if you like that sort of thing, but I quickly lost interest. I found the story of the soldier's sister in law waiting at home, and the female rock star (set in more modern times) sometimes hard to stick with, mainly because I didn't find either character very sympathetic, nor did I really care much about what happened to them in the end. This could have been much better, and the author evidently tried to avoid some of the weaknesses of this book in her next 3-handed novel "The Dreaming Stones".
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Sarah Harrison is one of the finest writers in Britain. Her fluid and beautiful prose defies any categorisation as commercial or literary, and she is one of the few writers selling under the commercial category capable of writing truly "epic" fiction.
But for all that I found this novel disappointing, and that the "three stories in one" format didn't really work. There was so much initial promise in the premises of these three tales, and I was very excited about this book at the start. But that initial promise petered out as I read on, and I began to realise there would be no delivery. The Crimean war story is incredibly interesting and moving, but is really nothing more than an attempt to document one man's experiences of going to war; there is no real story as such. The modern day strand I liked least of all, as I found the characters to be objectionable. And again, putting it simply, nothing really interesting happened. The story set in the Second World War was most interesting of all, but even this one finally left me unmoved.
I felt severely short-changed and unfulfilled after reading all these stories. I think with The Grass Memorial Harrison is interested in exploring themes of love and war, rather than telling a story as such. But in the end, it just makes for an unsatisfying read. The three strands just don't talk to each other, and the whole novel just doesn't work.
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A global story of love, across the spans of time
This book is fantastic, rarely has a book brought me to tears, but the Crimean War scenes did just that. Read more
Published on 9 April 2002
Interesting but frustrating
The premise of this book is interesting but at the end of the rather long book you are left feeling cnfused and unfulfilled. Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2002
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