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Jamestown Woman (Paperback)

by Sue Allan (Author)
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  • Paperback: 275 pages
  • Publisher: Domtom Publishing Ltd (30 Jan 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1906070016
  • ISBN-13: 978-1906070014
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.2 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 394,012 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Scunthorpe Telegraph- Chris Horan

A taste of violence and hardship is to the fore in this book...a rewarding
read.


Book Description

Jamestown Woman is the enthralling sequel to The Mayflower
Maid, (voted one of the best reads of 2005 on the BBC Radio 4 Open Book
Programme) and the second part of Sue Allan's gripping trilogy based in
17th century Pilgrim America.
Follow the story to Virginia where having weathered the perils of the
Mayflower's voyage and the early days of the Plymouth colony;Dorothy Nee
Bessie and her husband Thomas are now cast adrift into even more stormy and
dangerous waters. Seventeenth century politics are a violent and deadly
business as they are about to find out in the harsh realities of those dark
colonial days.
Sue Allan continues her spellbinding chronicles of the Mayflower Maid and
once again fate casts Bessie and Thomas into the paths of the great and not
so good. The giant figures of King James I, Captain John Smith and Oliver
Cromwell cast their shadows over the lives of the Puritans as England is
about to be engulfed by the horrors of the English Civil War.

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5.0 out of 5 stars From Feb 2008 'Historical Novels Review' by Rachel A Hyde, February 22, 2008 , 22 Feb 2008
By S. Allan (U.K) - See all my reviews
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From Feb 2008 Edition of 'Historical Novels Review' by Rachel A Hyde .

'About a year ago I read and enjoyed Mayflower Maid, which told the story of an obscure servant woman's adventures on the ship and in the New World. Now here is the sequel, and as middle books of trilogies so often tread water I wondered if the high standard would be there. I need not have worried because this is another excellent book, dealing with Bessie's reunion with her true husband Thomas, their stay in Jamestown and subsequent adventures back in England during the Civil War.
This is another book that manages expertly to get under the skin of C17th people, what drove them, their everyday lives, morals and concerns. There are probably fewer novels published about this century than any other in the past half millennium, so this is another treat. Even more so are the almost tangible descriptions of the places in the story, and the very real-seeming characters that populate them. No modern folk in historical dress here; this is history without the varnish and idealization, without too much dwelling on dirt and despair. I felt that I had read a long story although this is a short book, and look forward to the final part with relish. Real historical fiction!

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1.0 out of 5 stars This book needs a serious editor..., 1 Jan 2008
By pelette (Louisville, KY, USA) - See all my reviews
The sequel to "The Mayflower Maid", set in 17th century Virginia and England. Not a bad story in theory, the couple is caught up in both the hardships of colonial life in America and the English Civil War.

However...the sheer number of typographical, grammatical, punctuation and vocabulary errors was so distracting I couldn't even begin to enjoy the book.

A sampling: Maluable, vinettes, unnavailable, accros, slight of hand, vile course manners, reaped what he had sewn, having proven his metal, under the eves of the cottage, reek havoc, set out to bate him, veracious insects, lentern lilies, ordinance instead of ordnance, descent instead of decent, bans instead of banns.

There are hundreds of missed paragraph indentations, 's for plurals, s for possessives, omitted commas, extra commas, commas instead of periods, singular subjects with plural verbs, plural subjects with singular verbs, extra words, reversed words, missing words. Really too many to even begin to list them.

I've never seen anything like it. The first book in the trilogy had a few errors. I expect that. I find a few in every book. I can only suggest an editor for the third book in the trilogy.
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