There is something immediately nauseating – hear me out- about this book. You can be nauseous when you feel ill, when you ride a roller coaster, when you are nervous, or when you eat too many sweets. There is a feeling of hopeful dread that climbs over you (and all of the characters within) before you have finished reading the first page. There is a feeling that you have been here – in a cafe in Prague, under an overpass in Manila, in a field […]
The blurbs over-blurbed it.
So I’ve bee seeing this cover blasted all over Goodreads for about a year now. It’s gorgeous. It’s fascinating. It’s interesting. The blurbs for this book compare it to MR James, Henry James, Sarah Waters, and others like that. They say it’s sexy, sumptuous, rich, etc etc etc. It’s ok. It’s pretty ok. The story is about a variety of people who live and move to Essex in east England. It involves a headstrong and experimental surgeon, a minister, a recent widow, and an urban […]