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Summary: One of the best books I've ever read!!
Review: If you haven't ever read Goddard, start here, please! This book, despite dealing with some really thorny issues such as war, mistaken identity, blackmail, and abuse, retains such a misty quality about the narrative that you feel as if you are walking in someone else's dream. The mystery, far from being, shallow and gorey, like some American thrillers, insteady takes it's tension from a deep, involved and complicated series of realtionships and webs of lies that intruige the mind. The story begins and ends with a mother taking her daughter on a walk through the WWI battlefield monuments of France, and explaining what has consumed her for most of her life: who her father was. The answer, given to her by a strange old artist, will surprise you. If you want a deep, intelligent mystery, you must read this book!
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Summary: This Books crosses genre!
Review: It is difficult to classify this book. It's a romance. It's historic fiction, plus you could call it a "thriller." It's a mystery as well. I throughly enjoyed the novel and a year later went back for a re-read. It was still captivating.
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Summary: Engrossing!
Review: It was poignant reading this book the week of Remembrance. While I have read many books about WWI, I never cease to be affected when I read another. This book is very well written. It has that soft, English quality with depictions of stately manor homes, weather, proper English gentlemen. But it also uncovers the seedy underside that is so often depicted about Victorian-Edwardian England: perversion, abuse, dishonor. This tale though has some very unusual twists to it and every time I thought I had figured the whole story out, it took yet another one.
I have read one other Goddard and this is by far his best!
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Summary: A truly great novel
Review: This along with the author's "Past Caring" are his two best novels (so far). Ranks as one of the best novels of it's type I have read.
Highly recommended.
Rating:
Summary: A truly great novel
Review: This along with the author's "Past Caring" are his two best novels (so far). Ranks as one of the best novels of it's type I have read.
Highly recommended.
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