Review: Fun novel with lots of twists
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2014
There are so many things to recommend this novel--well-crafted, often quirky characters, excellent use of both city and rural England settings, and a plot that has just enough twists around the central theme to tie it all together. Unfortunately my copy, at least (which I received for free in exchange for my honest review and may not be the same one you would download when purchasing), had a few too many editing errors with left-out words and what seemed to me to be at least a paragraph of text. For this reason, I can't justify the 5 star rating I wanted to give it.Yvonne has come to London to study Theatre, but she also has set herself a quest of replacing a rubbing of a brass plaque that she set accidently destroyed when she started a fire at her grandmother's home many years before. In the course of her quest, she gets help from an interesting assortment of characters from a female minister and her family to her quirky, vibrant grandmother to a lesbian prostitute who turns out to lead an interesting double life. The author does a great job tying these disparate characters together in a story that investigates the chance things that interfere with ever-lasting love and relationships.I recommend the story for people who want to step outside of genre literature for a while but still want a litle external action in their literary fiction.