Review: Carefully and lovingly crafted
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 23, 2012
The Chapel in the Woods by Susan Louineau is an incredible debut novel from a burgeoning talent. The author has managed to successfully bind together three stories from different periods in time in France . Some readers might struggle to pick up and follow each separate story early on in the book, but stick with it as the story telling and the characterisations are worth it. Carefully and lovingly crafted this author shows her knowledge of rural French life and writes as well as anything Joanne Harris has so far published. Yet she has done so using her own unique writing style.As the three stories develop you find yourself caring deeply for each central character which by my reckoning is often the true test of a really good book and I was genuinely sorry I finished the book.I highly commend and recommend this book and look forward to reading future works from an emerging talent.