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I feel like a need to make a shelf for "historical novels about women travelling" as it is a sort of favorite of mine. This was an intriguing read. The novel has two parallel threads, one set in 1923 in Asia and the other in contemporary London. The first plot is implied by the title. Evangeline English is travelling with her sister Lizzie and another missionary, the domineering Millicent to establish a mission somewhere along the Great Silk Road. Evangeline, ironically (due to her name), is act
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This is an excellent story, with a narrative from the 1920's from a lady cyclist in Kashgar intertwining with a modern day story from London. As the pages turn, you just know that the stories are going to intersect, but it isn't until the very end that you find out exactly where, and exactly who some of the characters truly are. It is an absorbing tale, with a time and place that are little known in our modern age.
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It's hard to even follow this story on audio--the reader is so awful! She ends nearly every line on an up-note like a very posh Valley Girl. It's like listening to the recitation of an epic poem. The writing is fine, but the story? IS there a story? We have missionaries in Lenin's day getting help from Moscow, then a modern day character has to recall walking in on her mother receiving oral sex from a man who, of course, is not the mother's husband. Give me a break. Like two books arbitrarily (m
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Sadly I didn’t see the point of this book. Lack of an perceptible story, very average writing .... maybe it just wasn’t for me?
May 02, 2013
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