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January 17th 2008
by Canongate Books Ltd
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Paperback
isbn
1841959790
(isbn13: 9781841959795)
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Deserted by her mother as a baby, Emily lives with her father in Mexico City, working in the local orphanage. When a mysterious cousin, Santi, appears...more
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Read in December, 2007
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This book was like a rich dessert. It had a dark, velvety feel to it with its superstitions, saints and murderesses mingling into a web of intrigue, mystery, history and ancestry. Jennifer Clement has a beautifully poetic turn of phrase and when the twist hits you at the end of the book it's like having a butterfly's wing brush your face only for you to discover that it's made of steel.
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Read in December, 2008
Finishing jennifer clements books are like waking from a beautiful and simple dream. Nothing complicated or egotistical, yet other worldly and very original.
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Read in February, 2008
Some people have a morbid fascination with death, others with the means of death. Emily Neale, half British, half Mexican, collects facts about women who poisoned others. Abandoned as a baby by her mother, she's brought up in Mexico City by her father and Mother Agata, head of the orphanage that Emily's great-grandmother founded and where Emily now often helps out.
We hear that there are saints for almost everything in a devote Catholic Mexican society that is
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We hear that there are saints for almost everything in a devote Catholic Mexican society that is
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Read in January, 2009
Pretty damned impressive. I was very pleasantly surprised - Clement's prose is dense and beautiful.
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Read in December, 2007
"Working as a fable, The Poison That Fascinates entwines well the lives of saints and sinners, the past and present, spinning in a dark thread of Catholic themes to pattern an enjoyable novel showing the extremes of womanhood, leading to tragic circumstances."
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Read in October, 2007
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This is a brilliant book, the story of a girl whose life is thrown into turmoil when her long-lost cousin arrives unexpectedly.
It can be a bit sick at times, when your mind is screaming at her to wake up to reality (and so on), but what a tale!
It can be a bit sick at times, when your mind is screaming at her to wake up to reality (and so on), but what a tale!
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Read in September, 2007
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those who love strong women's fiction
An amazingly good, sad, sick story about a young girl whose life is turned upside down when a long-lost relative shows up on her family's doorstep.
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Read in January, 2008
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A great novel -- spare and arresting. Couldn't put it down!
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Read in June, 2007
Brilliant. A both harrowing and beautiful novel.
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