Ilmeisesti todellisuuspohjainen romaani Mary Annesta, joka aloittaa elämänsä Lontoon skeidaisilla syrjäkujilla ja vannoo nousevansa sieltä hinnalla millä hyvänsä.Hinta on kallis, mutta niin on nainen ja vapauskin. Kurtisaanielämän (oih, kuinka olen odottanut voivani kirjoittaa sanan "kurtisaani") valta on horjuvaa, mutta selviytymistarinan, oikeudenkäyntidraaman ja historiallisen romaanin yhdistelmänä oikein mainio. Amazing to have a great great grandmother who was so very outrageous! I would have given this a 3.5 but it didn't quite make a 4. Of course I know "Rebecca" well, but this is an interesting DeMaurier. I found the first 3/4 most fun and the last 1/4 wherein Mary Anne has some issues (not shared to avoid spoilers)that made her quite notorious in London. I didn't particularly like her, but the times in which she lived were times when women really didn't have many rights and Mary Anne took what she could, using many men in the process. I'm glad I read it.
Do You like book Mary Anne (2013)?
Great to start political context and historical insight. But lost interest towards the end!
—vh_dapper
It was better in retrospect than while I was reading it.
—grape
She was certainly a woman who knew her own mind
—Baby2shoes
