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Drawing on official documents and extensive general research into the period, author Eleanor Limprecht blends fact and imagination to create a convincing narrative that tells the story of a woman forgotten by history in her novel, 'Long Bay'.
Born in Paddington, New South Wales in 1885, Rebecca Sinclair was the fourth of six children, raised by her mother who was widowed when Rebecca was two. She married at nineteen, birthed a daughter, and four years later, alongside her husband, was convicted ...more
A fascinating book, but one that didn't quite work as a novel for me. Something about it felt very much like the thinly fictionalised historical story that it is - it was caught halfway between being a novel and being straight-up history, and it wound up falling a bit short on both sides. It's a heart-breaking and brilliantly researched story, and is probably worth your time just from that perspective, but I never found myself getting properly caught up in the characters in the way that I wanted
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Jun 18, 2015
Kate Moffatt
marked it as to-read
Jul 20, 2015
Dianne Owens
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Dec 19, 2015
Rachel Watts
marked it as to-read
