pickSet in the marshlands on the south coast of England, this tells the story of Alinor and her family who live off the land. Alinor is for all intents and purposes a wisewoman and raises the suspicions of her neighbours that she is a witch. She meets James, a spy for the Cavaliers during the English Civil War. I really enjoyed this book, it‘s a real romp through a tumultuous time in England‘s history. It‘s entertaining stuff.
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Honor from this Du Maurier I read a couple of years ago is a #ProtagWithDisability after she falls from a horse & is paralyzed from the waist down.
I‘m reading this with my online book group https://thereadingloft.groups.io/g/main
The illustrations in the book are genius.
... tales of bluff Norfolk farmers baffled by religious change, of drunken evenings in provincial inns and oak-panelled parlours, of saucy Norwich prostitutes and dour Dutch drainage engineers, of Cuckold the Calthorpes‘ dog and Wiggett the Hunstanton Hall fool, and of the many misadventures of Mr Prick, the unfortunately named minister of Denham. [The book]... enclosed one family‘s capacity for laughter even in the most serious times.
so-soI listened to this on audio, and the narration was excellent.
The story was good, but for me there was just something missing which makes it a so-so rather than a pick.
Evey‘s mother is killed by witch hunters and so she sets out to restore balance by killing all the men involved. It‘s a story of revenge, and sisterhood.
Royalists were lampooned for thirsting for rewards and court positions (dreaming of being ‘mounted on horseback with golden Sausedges about their Necks‘)...
Print got there first. Seems oddly topical given the events in (some parts of) the UK this week.
They had fought and fasted, prayed and toiled for liberty, and even executed the King, but 'now the common enemy is gone, you are all like men in a mist, seeking for freedom and know not where, nor what it is'
(After the Parliamentary forces defeated the King in the English civil war)
