Advantages: Beautifully written and good storyline. Disadvantages: Uses Shropshire dialect which requires concentration
...I first stumbled across Precious Bane as a film starring a young and spunky Janet McTeer as the ‘heroine’ Prue Sarn. The film was quite enjoyable to watch but lacked the richness of language that is found in the book – an inevitability sometimes.
The Plot~
Prue Sarn is the narrator of the story. She was born with a hare-lip and in those days (late 1800’s) this was quite a big deal. However, this ‘bane’ turned out to be ‘precious’ because as in ... ...her impediment in the shade.
She lived with her parents and brother in a small Shropshire community, full of superstition and rumour. All sorts of unfortunate things happened to the family and their friends and neighbours, which I shall not reveal in this review as it would spoil the story. Suffice to say that Prue survives through it all to the happy ending, which comes just in time!
The Author~
The author, Mary Webb, lived from 1881 to 1927. ...
gillianae 18.07.2009
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