Title: The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters
Author: Elisabeth Robinson
Thoughts: Okay, I'll admit it: I have a real problem with epistolary novels. Letters. Diary entries. I find these things difficult to get behind. Occasionally a novel transcends this problem (The Josephine B. books come to mind) but mostly I find it hard to care about the characters when you're never getting anything but their words. And, especially as in this book, only one character's words.
Robinson almost had me with this novel. I still struggled and put it down half-way through... but I picked it up again. I enjoyed her use of language and was many times jealous of a beautiful turn of phrase. I cried a little.
I am really curious to see what comes of this second novel she is apparently working on.
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