Title: The House
At Zaronza
Author: Vanessa
Couchman
Publisher: Crooked Cat
Publishing Ltd
Publish
date: July 2014
ISBN-10:
190984182X
ISBN-13:
978-1909841826
The story of a Corsican woman in the early part of the 20th
century, set within the framework of the enquiries of an interested party from
present-day UK. Engaging, intriguing and increasingly un-putdownable.
The book takes an unflinching look at what it meant to be
female at that time and place, with a realistic first-person narrative. The fictional
author voice’s credibility stems partly from changing over the course of the
novel, from naïve young woman to WW1 nurse and beyond – this with the added
complexity of the narrative being written as a retrospective memoir. The portions
on nursing on the Front are for me the most gripping. They fit in with the
ruggedly un-melodramatic stoicism of the main character to pack a force of
narrative that leaves one quite stunned.
Would recommend without reservation.
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