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After completing his medical training and working in his home town, Balthazar moves to London, keen to make his way in his mother's world. Here, influenced by two very different people, he decides to try and make a new life in Barbados. Before leaving Holland, Balthazar is introduced to Aphra Behn, singular for her time both as a female novelist and playwright but also as an English intelligence agent. The chance encounter leaves a lifelong mark on the rigorously honest and decent doctor. This intriguing, unusual book is crammed with fascinating detail about the everyday lives of 17th-century men and women. Reading such carefully structured prose, modestly oozing intelligence, clarity and insight on every page, reveals more than many a history book on the Restoration period. Stevenson has left no stone unturned in her coverage of every facet of life in the 1600s from local dialects to medical practices, from fashions to culinary preparations. Neither has she stinted in her meticulous research into the wider issues of the day: religion, politics, class, and the historical significance of the rise of sugar cane and the impact of the slave trade in the West Indies. Jane Stevenson is a writer of immense talent and The Pretender is not only a superb sequel to Astraea, but a book easily strong enough to stand on its own.--Carey Green
Sunday Telegraph
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But however good the 'history' the book just doesn't have a compelling enough plot or characters to make it come to life. Balthasar and Aphra Behn are just cardboard, which is a huge disappointment. This might be an accurate depiction of Restoration Europe but it's a dull novel, in my opinion, with no life to it. I struggled with it then finally abandoned it on the tube hoping that perhaps someone else will get the enjoyment from it that completely escaped me. A huge disappointment I'm afraid.
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