Nell Reece has never known her mother, and her father's burden of guilt has kept him cowed for years, working as a labourer on his sister's farm. But for all her aunt's spiteful... more
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Advantages: Light reading. Disadvantages: Lack of depth, plot, character description.
"Driven and Passionate, she stirs a pot spiced with incest, wife-beating .... and murder"
The Sunday Times.
I don't know what possessed me to read this book after my previous experience of reading this writer, although I suspect limited choice of reading material was the reason. "Cradle of Thorns" is a story based around 1890, and tells the story of Nell, a young maid who becomes pregnant, and who leaves her home, and travels through Bedfordshire ... ...with a 12 year old, under difficult circumstances, and he becomes a part of this story.
I can only assume from the write-up that was given by the Sunday Times that they didn't actually read the book. "Driven and passionate" are not words I would use to describe what was held in the 434 pages of drivel. What irritates me the most with this writer is her seeming inability to hold a story together, devising yet more characters in an effort to escape ...
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Nell Reece has never known her mother, and her father's burden of guilt has kept him cowed for years, working as a labourer on his sister's farm. But for all her aunt's spiteful attempts to break Nell's independent spirit, she has never succeeded. And now Nell, pregnant and alone, is forced to leave home.
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