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Footsteps (Paperback)

by Katharine McMahon (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 300 pages
  • Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (2 Mar 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006550371
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006550372
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 504,140 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A love story set in Edwardian Suffolk. When Helena Mayrick is asked to research a book on her grandfather, Hubert Donaldson, she hesitates to agree, not only because the relationship between Donaldson and her grandmother is shrouded in mystery, but also because she is mourning her husband's death.

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'This well-shaped and lovingly-crafted novel of domestic drama and emotion offers satisfying rewards. The theme of Footsteps - that of the effects of misplaced, frequently repressed love and passion on succeeding generations of women - is put together with intelligence and feeling, a grasp of narrative pace and an empathy for the weather-buffetted Suffolk coast where it is set. The author's touch is appealingly fresh and she succeeds in suggesting the complexity, waywardness and inexplicable patches that constitute life.' The Times

'Irreducibly delicate and tough-minded.' TES

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Footsteps sees McMahon on top form again., 28 May 2009
By Z. Nichols "Zoella" (Suffolk) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Footsteps (Paperback)
I'm a great fan of McMahon's other novels: The Alchemist's Daughter and The Rose of Sebastopol, so it came as a great delight that I loved this one too. It made it even more special that it's set near to where I live, McMahon has successfully captured what it's like to live on the wild windswept East Anglian coast.

Set in two different time periods: the Edwardian past and the near present, the novel explores the connection between two families and the repercussions of love and loss in both time frames. The novel is beautifully written, especially the Edwardian parts, and gives you a real sense of time and place.

After reading the novel, at a fast pace (plenty of night time reads that left me puffy-eyed in the morning!), my first instinct was to re-read it in order to make more connections between the two plots. It made me think that the past has the power to shape our futures more than we realise.

I can't wait for her next novel. McMahon is a modern Anya Seton.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and evocative novel, 26 Feb 2009
By L. H. Healy "Books are life, beauty and truth." (Hertfordshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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I was given this novel as a recommendation, and I'm so glad I was! It is the most enchanting, beautiful novel I've read for awhile. Wonderfully written, it tells the story of Helena Mayrick close to the present day, trying to overcome tragedy and embarking reluctantly at first on writing a book about her relation Donaldson, who was a famous photographer, and of her Grandmother Ruth Styles in the early part of the twentieth century, with a chapter alternately set in the present and then the past throughout the book.

Ruth Styles is the lynchpin to the whole novel and the most intriguing and devastating character, to whom all else somehow relates. She grows up by the sea in Suffolk, in a small village, and it is this place which shapes much of the lives of those involved. Young Ruth is intelligent, bright, and sparky, and has a profound and lasting effect on many around her, most noteably on Donaldson, the photographer who comes to Westwich and so begins his lifelong fascination with Ruth. As a reader, I was intensely curious and compelled to read on and find out what would happen to her, and so much does!

There is a marvelous sense of place within the novel, and it is clear the bearing the proximity of the sea has on several of the characters. The book is about the repercussions of the past; about love, forbidden love, lost love, unfulfilled love; it is about the draw of a particular landscape and how it can free or restrict a person, and it is about choices and fulfillment of potential, especially for women, which is a key theme of this author.
Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars VERY MOVING AND COMPELLING READ, 2 Jul 2009
By Mrs. L. E. Ford - See all my reviews
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I am stunned by this book. I got so engrossed in the story of Ruth and Helen, that I just wanted my journey to work and home again to be extended and very nearly went past my stop on a few occasions.

I really like the style in which Katherine McMahon writes. She writes clearly, drawing the reader quickly and deeply into her characters. I feel I have lived with Ruth and the Mayrick family at Westwich for the past few weeks and have cried alongside Helen in her sad bereavement and all that follows. The descriptions of people, places and situations are just superb. I especially like the way the author alternates between past and present and Katherine makes it quite clear whom we are following

To sum up: Footsteps is a beautiful, emotional and poignant love story which will not disappoint Katherine McMahon's readers. I count her now as one of my favourite authors and intend to read all her books. I am passing Footsteps onto my daughter so that she too may envelope herself in this beautiful story.
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