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This is going to be my five stars because I can see where some of the criticisms -- that it's really two books, and gets bogged down in a murder trial might, in a nearly 600 page book, be a turn off for some.
The thing is, I haven't been this absorbed in a novel in a long time, and so goddamned much of it is scrubbing floors. ...more
The thing is, I haven't been this absorbed in a novel in a long time, and so goddamned much of it is scrubbing floors. ...more
Thank you to Riverhead Books for the Galley!
I had never read anything by Sarah Waters, but all I knew was that she wrote well-regarded, historical fiction featuring lesbian characters. She continues in the same manner, but this time, the book is focused on a young woman, Frances, and her mother, who have lost everything after World War I. Frances' brothers both died in the war and her father's later death left them nearly destitute. To help make ends meet they take on a young married couple as b ...more
I had never read anything by Sarah Waters, but all I knew was that she wrote well-regarded, historical fiction featuring lesbian characters. She continues in the same manner, but this time, the book is focused on a young woman, Frances, and her mother, who have lost everything after World War I. Frances' brothers both died in the war and her father's later death left them nearly destitute. To help make ends meet they take on a young married couple as b ...more
It's good. It's a long book. Boy did it feel like a looooooong book.
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Someone in a previous review characterized this book as woefully overlong. I agree. Unlike Affinity, Tipping the Velvet, and Fingersmith, this book lacked a spark between its leads that failed to sustain me through the density of Waters' particulars. After such lengthy, laden prose I found the conclusion very thin. This one missed the mark for me.
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