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The Palace Of Strange Girls (2009)

by Sallie Day(Favorite Author)

3.26 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0007276079 (ISBN13: 9780007276073)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: I might have been worried about undrrstanding the 50s setting of Blackpool but the context represented here were so vivid that I eas able to approach it as a rapt observer. It is the story of a millworker family on summrt holiday. Each member of this family has his own place in the narrative and each threads helps to build the sites and smells of the sea and time. It was such a refreshing read. I wish I had learned a bit more about the illness of the youngr girl Beth, but nome of that affected my enjoyment.
review 2: This started out rather hard to follow and overly wordy, but settled down by chapter two. The picture it painted of Blackpool in the late '50s was vivid and believable, and the characters well drawn. I liked the way the author observed small but te... morelling details (eg at one point in the story Ruth has a pebble stuck in her shoe but is too angry to stop and shift it), this provided illumination without the need for acres of description. I wouldn't call the story 'delightful' as is claimed on the cover - it was quite hard-hitting in a gentle sort of way, raising many questions as it went along. Ironically I thought the plot strand to which the title relates was one of the weaker elements of the story, but it clearly provided an eye-catching title for a first novel. less

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