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Deeply intriguing...the reader is right there in Suffolk, totally absorbed and longing to discover more, seduced by this most dynamic and alluring storyteller (Sue Gaisford, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY )
The shift between narrators is accomplished and unpredictable . . . Beauman's plotting compels you to keep reading (Louise France, OBSERVER )
Enthralling and atmospheric story (MAIL ON SUNDAY / YOU Magazine )
Absorbing (Margaret Walters, SUNDAY TIMES )
The shift between narrators is accomplished and unpredictable . . . Beauman's plotting compels you to keep reading (Louise France, OBSERVER )
Enthralling and atmospheric story (MAIL ON SUNDAY / YOU Magazine )
Absorbing (Margaret Walters, SUNDAY TIMES )
GUARDIAN
‘Unashamedly romantic and readable . . . Beauman is a captivating and artful storyteller – capable of making us believe the unbelievable'
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a story of three sisters, the youngest strange sad little Maisie, the unusually named Finn, and beautiful, selfish Julia. I found the opening section, told from Maisie's viewpoint, confusing for the first few chapters as I was unsure who the characters were. Indeed, at this stage I thought the book would disappoint. The writing seemed to lack the compelling mystery of `Rebecca's Tale' (a book I long resisted, convinced that nothing could live up to the original, but it was every bit as mysterious as Daphne du Maurier's story and, I thought, beautifully written). But as the story developed I became quite fond of Maisie and her voices from the past. Then suddenly the viewpoint changed. I found this disconcerting until I got used to a different voice. It was not long though before I became intrigued, moved, and hooked.
Overall, it was an absorbing tale, improving as it progressed, building momentum towards the final dénouement. I wouldn't rate it the best book this year, but certainly worth a read.
Overall, it was an absorbing tale, improving as it progressed, building momentum towards the final dénouement. I wouldn't rate it the best book this year, but certainly worth a read.
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Sally Beauman's new novel, her first since the clever and intriguing 'Rebecca's Tale' is a magnificent novel that works on so many different levels.
Some might be put off by the title in thinking that this is a slight book or in some ways wishy washy.... Don't be!
This book captivates the reader within a haunting story about the lives of three sisters in 1960's Suffolk. The story moves to 1991 and we see the consequences of the events that have taken place. As the story unravels you find yourself reading a book that transends genre.
Sally Beauman has an intellegent and clever writting style that grips the reader in the mystery reminding me of early Robert Goddard and a narrative as rich and as personal as John Le Carre.
This may well be the best novel I read this year.
Some might be put off by the title in thinking that this is a slight book or in some ways wishy washy.... Don't be!
This book captivates the reader within a haunting story about the lives of three sisters in 1960's Suffolk. The story moves to 1991 and we see the consequences of the events that have taken place. As the story unravels you find yourself reading a book that transends genre.
Sally Beauman has an intellegent and clever writting style that grips the reader in the mystery reminding me of early Robert Goddard and a narrative as rich and as personal as John Le Carre.
This may well be the best novel I read this year.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Witty, literate, sophisticated, compelling, haunting, and multi-layered - so evocative you could muse for hours upon the significance of characters' names alone. Rigorously unsentimental yet intensely nostalgic -- in places it's an elegy to a lost world as heartbreaking as Verlyn Klinkenborg's Timothy: Notes of an Abject Reptile. The first section gave me the sense of having slipped back between the pages of I Capture the Castle and Cold Comfort Farm. In the next section, Beauman creates one of the most compelling males I've ever met in fiction....such a voice. Difficult to put down -- I sped through it, and now I shall have to go back and read it again, much more carefully, because it really is a plum pudding of a book, stuffed with subtle gems, most of which I'm sure I missed on the first go-round. How many books demand such careful, thoughtful attention -- while perversely driving you to rocket through them so fast you risk a speeding ticket? I can't think of many....
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