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Two Loves
Rosamund Gilchrist is the restless young widow of Anthony Gilchrist, until she decides to take up the cause of Erica, Anthony's former mistress. In doing so, Rosamund has to do battle with Molly, Anthony's second wife, and she unleashes a series of events which will change her own life forever.
288 pages, Hardcover
First published July 10, 1997
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About the author
Siân James
59 books7 followersSiân James was a Welsh novelist who wrote in English.
James attended the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She was a Fellow of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Glamorgan. She was a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. She twice won the Yorkshire Post Prize, and her third novel, A Small Country, has come to be regarded as a classic of Anglo-Welsh literature. In 2006, A Small Country was made into a Welsh-language TV series (Calon Gaeth), which won the 2007 Bafta Cymru award for Best Drama/Drama Serial for Television.
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James attended the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She was a Fellow of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Glamorgan. She was a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. She twice won the Yorkshire Post Prize, and her third novel, A Small Country, has come to be regarded as a classic of Anglo-Welsh literature. In 2006, A Small Country was made into a Welsh-language TV series (Calon Gaeth), which won the 2007 Bafta Cymru award for Best Drama/Drama Serial for Television.
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September 21, 2023
Having chanced upon her obituary in The Guardian, I thought I’d read the Welsh writer, Sian James.
Firstly, I read her short stories and found them deftly written and quietly moving. So I embarked upon, Two Loves, one of her later novels with a very positive feeling.
Sian James is an accomplished writer but something about this book called to mind an expression from Virago, the publishing house. Their benchmark for accepting new authors was that they had to pass a threshold known as “ the Whipple line”. Dorothy Whipple, a very popular author in her time wrote a lot about women but somehow missed the feminist mark. ) And I felt this was true of Sian James in Two Loves. In the first half I gave the author the benefit of the doubt but found the latter parts over egged with formulaic plot lines, all pretty unconvincing. Rosamund, the main character was pretty infuriating in making such epic bad choices. But what struck me the most is that as a character she was two dimensional and we really didn’t find out what made her tick.
Sian James was pretty prolific and I really thought I’d discovered an exciting new author to read but (if anything) I’ll be sticking to her short stories from now on.
Firstly, I read her short stories and found them deftly written and quietly moving. So I embarked upon, Two Loves, one of her later novels with a very positive feeling.
Sian James is an accomplished writer but something about this book called to mind an expression from Virago, the publishing house. Their benchmark for accepting new authors was that they had to pass a threshold known as “ the Whipple line”. Dorothy Whipple, a very popular author in her time wrote a lot about women but somehow missed the feminist mark. ) And I felt this was true of Sian James in Two Loves. In the first half I gave the author the benefit of the doubt but found the latter parts over egged with formulaic plot lines, all pretty unconvincing. Rosamund, the main character was pretty infuriating in making such epic bad choices. But what struck me the most is that as a character she was two dimensional and we really didn’t find out what made her tick.
Sian James was pretty prolific and I really thought I’d discovered an exciting new author to read but (if anything) I’ll be sticking to her short stories from now on.
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