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Aug 08, 2021
Rachel
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True storytelling here. Amazing.
This is more toward historical fiction than biography, but Wayne Johnston does a satisfying job of creating a somewhat fictional life of Joey Smallwood with the bulk of the book concentrating on the years before Smallwood becomes Newfoundland's first premier.
The made up character of Fielding is even more interesting than Smallwood, I think, although I probably wouldn't say that until almost the end of the book. Before that we have an incomplete account of her life - the reasons become obvious in ...more
The made up character of Fielding is even more interesting than Smallwood, I think, although I probably wouldn't say that until almost the end of the book. Before that we have an incomplete account of her life - the reasons become obvious in ...more
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