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A brilliant, stylish novel encompassing the robust life of Boston and London, just at the time of greatest resentment and rebellion by the colonists against the British Government, and displaying the remarkably contemporary prejeudice shown by people on both sides. Makepeace Burke, keeper of a tavern on the waterfront in Boston, could no more watch a fellow creature drown than she could stop the wind blowing. But the price she paid for rescuing an English aristocrat after he had been attacked by the mob was high. She might be a supporter of the more reasonable colonists but she had committed an apparently unforgiveable sin. So her inn became deserted, her brother was tarred and feathered, and her respectable fiancee and his family deserted her. When the Patriots turned to burning her home, she knew she had to take the offer of the much despised Englishmen and so, saved by the Navy and accompanied by her remarkable retinue, she sails for London. She marries her Englishman as his second wife but finds that English society does not easily accept uneducated, colonial, ex-tavernkeepers -- and the first wife, well connected and refusing to acknowledge a divorce, proves a dirty fighter. B
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Zintax Zin
reviewed A catch of consequence on August 08, 2015
A catch of consequence
This was very good! I enjoyed the medieval mysteries Norman wrote as Ariana Franklin (Mistress of the Art of Death) so I thought I would try the historical novels she wrote under her own name.
This begins in Boston in 1765, the year of the infamous Stamp Tax, when the city is rioting and the Sons of Liberty are organizing under the fiery leadership of Samuel Adams.
Makepeace Burke is a respectable tavern owner, indignant about the tax but uneasy about the violence in the town. Her life is disrupted when she pulls a drowning English aristocrat out of the harbor and gives him shelter, earning the displeasure of her patriotic neighbors.
This begins like a romance novel, albeit with a particularly rich historical setting. Makepeace and the half-drowned Englishman are immediately attracted to each other, and when her life in Boston collapses she goes with him to England. A romance novel would end there, but this keeps going well past the happy ending, and Makepeace still has a hard road in front of her.
I liked Makepeace very much, and I was particularly entertained by the way she manages to walk back over her burned bridges - reconsidering rejected options, doing things she firmly declared she would never do - without losing any of her strength of character.
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