Comments on: Vancouver with half a voice http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/07/vancouver-with-half-a-voice/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:59:24 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Sarah Dunant http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/07/vancouver-with-half-a-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Sarah Dunant Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:49:31 +0000 http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=25#comment-13 many thanks Sandra. i will chase the book on amazon. many thanks Sandra. i will chase the book on amazon.

]]> By: sandra mckenzie http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/07/vancouver-with-half-a-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-12 sandra mckenzie Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:48:59 +0000 http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=25#comment-12 Hi Sarah, I was at Barbara Jo's last night - what a delight to hear you read! I was the the one pestering you about the artwork on the Canadian (and presumably British/European?) edition. Love, love, love Sacred Hearts, and don't want it to end, though I'm desperate to know what happens -- that may be the happiest of all possible dilemmas. Thanks so much for a great reading, and even more, for a great book. (Not that "Birth of Venus" and "In the Company of the Courtesan" were shabby efforts, but "Sacred Hearts" has really captured my imagination - possibly because I knew a few of those nuns once upon a time, long ago in parochial school). I mentioned a book called Ulverton, by Adam Thorpe - possibly one of the best works of historical fiction I have ever read. Here's a link to the Amazon UK site: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ulverton-Adam-Thorpe/dp/0749397047. I'd cheerfully offer to lend you my copy, but it's too hard to replace, and besides it's tattered and worn from being read too many times. (Damned paperbacks! They don't make 'em like they used to!) Anyhow, Ulverton is a miracle of a book - the "voices" are so authentic, and the stories they tell so -- I don't know -- redolent of human experience, whether that's 1630 or 2009. Yea for historical fiction! And a heart-felt "thank you" to the very enlightened history teacher who first turned me onto Robert Graves' Claudius books as a good way of getting a handle on Roman history. Hi Sarah, I was at Barbara Jo’s last night – what a delight to hear you read! I was the the one pestering you about the artwork on the Canadian (and presumably British/European?) edition. Love, love, love Sacred Hearts, and don’t want it to end, though I’m desperate to know what happens — that may be the happiest of all possible dilemmas. Thanks so much for a great reading, and even more, for a great book. (Not that “Birth of Venus” and “In the Company of the Courtesan” were shabby efforts, but “Sacred Hearts” has really captured my imagination – possibly because I knew a few of those nuns once upon a time, long ago in parochial school).

I mentioned a book called Ulverton, by Adam Thorpe – possibly one of the best works of historical fiction I have ever read. Here’s a link to the Amazon UK site: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ulverton-Adam-Thorpe/dp/0749397047. I’d cheerfully offer to lend you my copy, but it’s too hard to replace, and besides it’s tattered and worn from being read too many times. (Damned paperbacks! They don’t make ‘em like they used to!) Anyhow, Ulverton is a miracle of a book – the “voices” are so authentic, and the stories they tell so — I don’t know — redolent of human experience, whether that’s 1630 or 2009.

Yea for historical fiction! And a heart-felt “thank you” to the very enlightened history teacher who first turned me onto Robert Graves’ Claudius books as a good way of getting a handle on Roman history.

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