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  • Unknown Binding
  • Publisher: Abacus; paperback / softback edition (1 Jan 2002)
  • ISBN-10: 0349114471
  • ISBN-13: 978-0349114477
  • ASIN: B002C057NQ
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Baffling but enjoyable, 7 Jan 2002
By R Hamblyn (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: According to Queeney (Hardcover)
This was an enjoyable, well-written but ultimately baffling book. It seems like it might have been an experiment to see whether it's possible to write about Johnson in a 'Johnsonian' way i.e. digressive, moody and episodic; if so, it works pretty well. If not, then I'm a bit stumped.
Like a number of Bainbridge's other excursions into historical fiction, like Master Georgie or the Birthday Boys, one is left wondering why the author chose the particular times and characters she's writing about; she doesn't seem particularly close to them; nor do they act as universals, so oddly do they behave. Still, she's a great writer of sentences. Some of them still go on ringing through my head weeks after reading them.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Well researched, 4 Jan 2003
By Gillian Caddy (Congleton, Cheshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Bainbridge has researched her subject well - I came away feeling that I had learned something about the characters of a number of famous names - James Boswell, Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney, etc. However, the tale itself felt disjointed at times with the technique of switching between centuries (Each chapter is interspersed with a letter from the older Queeney, looking back on her family acquaintance). Johnson himself seemed an improbably unattractive character in temperament for a much courted lady to be chasing. In fact, most of the characters have very few endearing features.

It was a pleasing enough book, but not as enjoyable as I thought it could have been.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece, 19 Sep 2001
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This is Beryl Bainbridge at the peak of her powers and it is a travesty that she has missed out on the Booker again. It is a dark tale of the complex relationship between Samuel Johnson and his friend and benefactor Mrs Thrale and is executed masterfully.
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