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Half Of The Human Race (2012)

by Anthony Quinn(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0224087290 (ISBN13: 9780224087292)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Jonathan Cape

review 1: If I was ever tempted to see the suffragette movement as a small group of women who chained themselves to railings and immediately forced the government to capitulate to their demands, I’m not tempted to do so after reading this. It brings to life the injustices suffered by women at that time, the scale of the struggle, and the contempt with which suffragists were held at the time – even by other women. It conveys the sense of frustration felt by the oppressed in the face of the and the complacent I’m-alright-Jack attitude of those who are not. For a white male author (not traditionally a disadvantaged demographic) to have brought this to life made it even more of a triumph in my eyes.
review 2: I wanted to read this book because I'm a big cricket fan ... moreand novels with the sport as a backdrop are rare. The book is far wider though, and depicts the class and gender struggles of the Edwardian era beautifully, backed by painstaking research. The characters stand out from the page and I missed them so much when I finished the book - always a good sign - and as a writer I spent some time working out how Quinn had done it. A slight frustration was how the book deteriorated into a predictable WW1 romance towards the end. less

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