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Fabulous. North and South is one of my favourite books. I love the Maltese Falcon and want to read the other two. This is a much better start than 2019. Thanks randomiser!
It is December but I finally read one of the books!The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble. 3 stars.
Barbara Erskine is one of my favourite authors and I would have been more enthused about reading this book if I had known that it is vaguely like hers in that a narrator hears about a previous time and is influenced by it. Usually her novels end with the historical character's story told and probably a romance for the main character of the modern narrative. That is kind of what happened here. However, The Red Queen is essentially two novellas. I enjoyed the first one which is the story of the crown princess and the horrific fate of her husband, but the second one was somewhat bland and poorly integrated. I have never read anything else by Margaret Drabble and I am not surprised that this was dropped after the 2006 list.
May I have a new book please, just in case it is on my shelves!
1) The Red Queen Margaret Drabble
2) North and South Elizabeth Gaskell
3) The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
4) Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley (WL)