The Deverell Woman

by Meg Hutchinson

Book

Hardcover

First published December 1, 2002

About the author

This author has also released books under the name Margaret Astbury.

Reviews

[Hayley Stanbury]

It was really good. I really Love Meg Hutchinson.

[Tony]

I like Megs Books but found this one a little tiring, I was glad to get to the end.

[Clare Smith]

I was looking forward to a light and frivolous read. You know, the sort of book that you use purely to entertain yourself for a bit with no thinking required.
Sadly this novel is so dire it made me furious and irritated. I have never seen a writing style so peppered with question marks? To the point where whole paragraphs of sentences end in question marks? I still can't see the point of them all?
The storyline is totally improbable. Characters routinely pop up seemingly from the dead all the way from Birmingham to Clonmacnoise, Ireland. And the happy coincidences are actually deserving of their own question mark?
My final gripe is the incomprehensible dialect. Maybe if you are a local reader it would work. My view is that the author has put so much effort into writing the dialogue in dialect (correct me please if there is a better way to express this) that I was unable to discern the meaning if many sentences thereby leaving me with many ????