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‘Accomplished, immersive and profoundly satisfying’ Cathy Rentzenbrink ‘Effortlessly resonant … breathes rich imaginative colour in her characters’ Daily Telegraph
From the million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family.
SIX BROTHERS AND SISTERS. ONE INJUSTICE THAT WILL SHATTER THEIR BOND FOREVER.
Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who fled bigamy charges in England, both a mesmerising talent and a man of terrifying instability. As his children grow up in a remote farmstead in 1830s rural Baltimore, the country draws ever closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war.
Of the six Booth siblings who survive to adulthood, each has their own dreams they must fight to realise – but it is Johnny who makes the terrible decision that will change the course of history – the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Booth is a riveting novel focused on the very things that bind, and break, a family.
‘In its stretch and imaginative depth, Booth has an utterly seductive authority’ Guardian
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To add context to my review, I've never read the original Jane Austen novel and have no preconceptions about what the characters or story "should" be.
At first I enjoyed following along with sweet-natured bookworm Cat Morland as she packed her bags and headed off to Edinburgh. Her first naive encounters with big city life had me on her side, although the mentions of Facebook and Twitter came off as somewhat stilted. It was all going okay until, like an anvil, the author drops in the fact that Cat is a Twilight fan.
What's the problem with this? It's that Twilight is polarizing, something that people tend to either love or hate. It's a real-world topic that people get passionate and heated about.
And that's a problem! Cat's enjoyment of Twilight is just meant to be an example of her love for supernatural stories, but instead it is distracting, because it knocks the reader out of their immersion and into their own real-life opinions on Twilight.
It would have been more effective if Cat enjoyed virtually any other vampire books. Dracula, The Southern Vampire Myste 5 new books to subject this week
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