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Aug 2020
11:54am, 19 Aug 2020
39,894 posts
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LindsD
Oh. Must have got confused.
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Aug 2020
11:59am, 19 Aug 2020
52,209 posts
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Diogenes
Mrs D hasn't read it either. It definitely isn't her kind of thing. (She has been reading Christopher Ecclestone's autobiography for longer than he's actually been alive)
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Aug 2020
12:27pm, 19 Aug 2020
39,896 posts
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LindsD
Have just given it to my Mum (realised that she can read it on my Kindle whilst I'm staying with her)
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Aug 2020
9:37pm, 19 Aug 2020
121,876 posts
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GregP
Yes, Mrs Greppers is reading it but very slowly, it seems.
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Aug 2020
2:08pm, 25 Aug 2020
4,283 posts
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westmoors
I read this whilst on holiday. I'd never ready any Tracy Chevalier before.
Can't quite remember how I came across this one, but as soon as I saw it was based around Winchester I had to add it to my TBR pile. My parents are both Wintonians and I visited Winchester many times when staying with the grandparents as a child.
I have to admit, I concentrated more on the locations than on the story or characterisation whilst reading. Really enjoyed my virtual return to the city!
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Aug 2020
2:27pm, 25 Aug 2020
40,063 posts
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LindsD
It was well-described, wasn't it? My Mum said she could picture it exactly.
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Aug 2020
2:32pm, 25 Aug 2020
46,612 posts
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McGoohan
As Dio was noting before, Violet goes on a walking holiday - it's on the Clarendon Way which I have done twice. I knew exactly where she was.
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Aug 2020
7:35pm, 26 Aug 2020
4,285 posts
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westmoors
Just read McGoo's comparison with HP and proper review. Both very good!
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Aug 2020
9:46pm, 28 Aug 2020
20,197 posts
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Columba
There were things I liked about this... but overall it didn't grip me and I couldn't quite believe in it. I'm sure Tracey researched her period detail well. I liked the way that the intricate ins-and-outs of the embroidery were highlighted, and implicitly compared to the ins-and-outs of the bell-ringing. Undoubtedly that generation was short of men, and a lot of women went unpartnered for that reason, and a lot of people were nursing broken hearts as their husbands/fiances/brothers/sons had been killed in WW1. So it illuminates that decade in our history.
A single page illustrating the different embroidery stitches named would have been good. Also a plan of the cathedral; I know what some bits are, - the nave and the choir, for example - but the presbytery? As far as I'm concerned the presbytery is a house close by a church where the priest lives.
I just couldn't seem to believe in any of the people, and I don't know why not, since they were described in a perfectly believable way.
I'll read back and see what the rest of you think.
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Aug 2020
9:59pm, 28 Aug 2020
20,198 posts
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Columba
The pedant in me cannot resist drawing McG's attention to the last (nearly the last) sentence in his most recent post on this thread... discrete - discreet, McG?
It's all right, you don't have to go out and shoot yourself.
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