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I know that elegant literature is not the deal with Hislop's novels but I at least enjoyed the stories of her previous ones. From this one, I get the impression she doesn't understand her own strengths and weaknesses as a writer. It's like some kind of vanity project. Looking forward to finishing this, it'll be the last Hislop novel I read.

Finally a key ingredient of a decent story... some conflict. Not particularly plausible, but it's something.

300+ pages in and we've only just reached the events covered by the first paragraph of the blurb on the back. Hislop is better at telling stories than this usually. It really needs a good edit.

Hislop can do better than this.

One hell of a slow burn