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Smouldering Fires (1975)

by Anya Seton(Favorite Author)

3.33 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0385069871 (ISBN13: 9780385069878)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Doubleday Books

review 1: All her life, high school senior Amy Delatour has had "dreaming true" sequences, moments or dreams in which she seems to be channeling scenes from a previous lifetime. Her new English teacher, Mr. Stone, is interested in using hypnosis to dig deep into her subconscious in order to determine the source of and possibly resolve Amy's past inner conflict.I was engaged in this short novel for the first half, but then it simply became uninteresting. Everything was resolved just a bit too pat for my tastes. Definitely not one of Seton's better works.
review 2: This was Anya Seton’s last book, and if you are looking for another meaty historical novel, you won’t find it here. In little more than 150 pages we meet Amy, the grand-daughter of a French-Canadian who te... morells her stories of his Acadian ancestors who were forced to leave Nova Scotia in the 1700’s. Amy’s identification with these stories brings to light the historical fact that some of these Acadians settled in Greenwich, Connecticut, the setting of the story and the home of Anya Seton. When compared with Seton’s other novels, it is interesting to wonder how different this little book could have been. less

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