Remarkable creatures5/24/2023 It’s not that I expected a lot, really, but I did expect a little more than I got. So, my appetite was whetted.īut, I must say, I was somewhat disappointed. Not only did she visit Lyme Regis, but she set a significant scene in Persuasion there*. You see, it is set in Lyme Regis in the early 1800s, and that rings a special bell for me! Yes, it’s to do with Jane Austen. Tracy Chevalier would not normally be high priority for me, but this book intrigued me because of its period and setting. The others are David Mitchell’s The thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet and Peter Carey’s Parrot and Olivier in America. I am experiencing such a period now as Tracy Chevalier‘s Remarkable creatures is the third book I’ve read recently to deal in some way with the first decades of the 19th century. Most readers experience, I think, periods of reading synchronicity when we read books in close succession that are related in some way. Cover image courtesy HarperCollins Australia
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