![]() ![]() ![]() (Except for Sally, who had a lot going on.) More aggressive editing was needed to allow a better flow.īy the end of the book, I had a good feel for the characters, but found them only marginally fleshed out: I never had a really clear idea of what anyone looked like, and found that behaviors and traits were told about rather than demonstrated. All this information though, often distracted from the present. ![]() In the first third of the book, the author’s research is beautifully expressed through a mingling of backstory, conversation, letters, and Brigid’s diary entries. But it was the disparate elements that caused this reader to be constantly be taken out of the story. The sum of all the parts of this novel amount to a decent read, and an informative look at the era. Brigid leaves Ireland to go to Australian in search of a new life. ![]()
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