**spoiler alert** I jumped to the back of this collection to read Ehrengard first. What a story! It starts out like a fairytale - a handsome prince......more**spoiler alert** I jumped to the back of this collection to read Ehrengard first. What a story! It starts out like a fairytale - a handsome prince...a lovely princess, then a benign (is he though?) artist-arranger is added, then a warrior maiden. How WILL it end!
My five star rating is, so far, for this story only. The story Babette's Feast is also in this collection, and is the original reason I am reading the book.
Edited to add this last bit after I finished reading all the stories.
I can't believe I'm the only one (here on goodreads anyway) who loves Tempests, the story of a 19th century Norwegian girl who becomes an actress and is very much swept up in playing the part of Ariel in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
I read this fine collection of stories in one day, crying through half of it, at least. As soon as I heard of this book, I knew I'd have to read it. I...moreI read this fine collection of stories in one day, crying through half of it, at least. As soon as I heard of this book, I knew I'd have to read it. I made myself read it...the first years of my married life my husband was deployed for months at a time. It was very hard, is all I can say. But what Siobhan Fallon portrays, with yearlong deployments the norm, is much harder to bear. How will these men, women, and children ever have happiness if this is their life? Because, hard though it is, and primarily because it IS hard, men especially are drawn to it like a moth to a light, my son being one.(less)
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