![]() A small secret of Hester’s is out – her mercy of giving the victim some of the gin she keeps in her bag marks her as someone with vices as strong as her virtues. Hester is stuck on a coach, hands shaking, and not just from the cold, before spurring into motion when a fellow passenger falls from the top row of the overcrowded coach with more than a broken leg. From who we find out soon enough, but as to finding out why we are made to wait for a fair few pages (I did appreciate the question in the heroine’s surname greatly). The story begins with the main character, Hester Why, on the run. ![]() Whilst it took me some time for me to get into The Silent Companions, and The Corset had its ups and downs for me, Bone China got me on the side of the main heroine in an instant. It is difficult to write about one of Purcell’s fiction books, without comparing it to the previous ones, as they are all under the same genre, yet the particulars of both plot and main characters differ greatly, thus providing a gripping read. There are many similarities between the novels – the main characters are all women, usually of some fortune further, the books are set in the same era, there is a mystery to be uncovered and have a good dose of the inexplicable and the supernatural thrown into the mix. ![]() For a third year in a row, we have trusted ourselves to read and review a Laura Purcell novel, this year it is Bone China. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |