Shortlisted for Book of the Month
Novella / Time
Travel
1400s
England
What a
delightful novella. A quick read - about an hour and a half - but one that
certainly gives plenty and lingers long after you’ve finished. We know from the
first line that Kate is going to experience time travel; it is where she goes
and what she does there that awaits us as we read on. As the title suggests, we
meet the last Plantagenet, King Richard III, just days before the battle of
Bosworth. Kate must come to terms with knowing what she knows and being unable
to warn Richard, a king she comes to know very quickly as a man.
This novella is
a labour of love – it is not a book someone less passionate about Richard could
write. It is rather fanciful and probably tells us a lot about the writer as
much as it does Richard. Her inspiration is made very clear at the end and
maybe with the passing of time the abruptness of that inspiration will be
mellowed. This is one of the new wave of rehabilitation novels for Richard III
showing him in a much more sympathetic light, and personally, I am all for it.
As with
previous full length novels from this author, this is less accurate history and
more ‘what if’ but there is nothing wrong with a dose of unashamed escapism,
and this novella delivers that in spades.
© Nicky
Galliers
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I got it!!!!!
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DeleteThank you so much for the lovely review!
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