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Cargando... Hope Against Hope (2010)por Sally Zigmond
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Industrious Carrie and carefree May must venture into the world to find work and lodging when their Leeds pub is sold out from under them to make way for the coming of the railway. Eventually driven apart by misunderstanding, May's fate is a high-class brothel from which her escape leads only to hunger in the slums of Paris while Carrie becomes a virtual slave to the vicious hostess of a filthy boarding house. Alex Sinclair, a bold and warm-spirited Scot, has eschewed the wishes of his father to become a railway engineer. His companion, Charles Hammond is the dissolute heir to a vast fortune, withheld from him by an overbearing mother and grasping stepfather. The futures of both men will become bound up with those of the two sisters. As time passes the sisters overcome their adversities, though there seems little hope of reconciliation or of either of them finding love and lasting happiness. But this is 1848, the Year of Revolutions. The streets of Paris erupt in bloody insurrection--while Alex Sinclair is commissioned to bring the railway to Harrogate. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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There is no need to be afraid of a literary challenge if you read this. It is written in an easily accessible style, with a delightful and likable narrator and every description and account does the job clearly without ambiguity. I think the book would be greatly appreciated by many women readers who enjoy a touch of romance in the course of a wonderfully entertaining, easy to read, historically based drama.
It is predominantly about the lives of two sisters, May and Carrie, during the ten years between 1837- 1847 as they emerge from early adolescence into young adulthood accompanied by a myriad of colourful characters and events, joy and heartache. I was impressed by the fact that all of the very fascinating and strong characters are women and the men generally feature as villains or spineless lapdogs. I also enjoyed the story as an uncommon account of Victorian social mobility, emerging middle classes and moral uncertainty. I’m always interested in settings which I think play as important a role as characters, and here the buildings and surroundings of Harrogate are brilliantly brought to life.
It is a shame that in this first edition there are so very many typos. It gives the impression of being rushed into publication on a tight budget. After a while I just had to sigh and skip over the mistakes, but as I am a slow and careful reader every tiny error did jolt me momentarily out of the story.
The captivating plot is well paced with twists and turns aplenty all satisfyingly resolved at the end. Characters are completely believable, well developed individuals all with a role to play in the intricately woven story. I could picture the whole thing as a really entertaining BBC mini series or even a Hollywood movie. ( )