Elisabeth Storrs
Autore di The Wedding Shroud
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Storrs, Elisabeth
- Nome legale
- Storrs, Elisabeth
- Altri nomi
- Storrs, Lisa
Storrs, Elizabeth - Data di nascita
- 1959-12-31
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Luogo di nascita
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Istruzione
- University of Sydney
- Attività lavorative
- writer
lawyer - Breve biografia
- Elisabeth Storrs graduated from the University of Sydney in Arts Law, majoring in English and having studied Classics and lives with her husband and two sons in Sydney. Over the years she has worked as a solicitor, corporate lawyer, senior manager and company secretary but is really happy concentrating on writing now.
Her first novel, The Wedding Shroud, is set in early Rome and Etruria, and was researched and written over a period of ten years. It was published by Pier 9 / Murdoch Books in Australia but is now available as an ebook world wide.
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This book suffers the curse of many historical novels: by trying to explain and detail every historical reference or archeological find, the story seems like an afterthought.
While I appreciate the historical aspect of this story, I agree with another reviewer that the protagonist is not engaging. Things happen to her, and she makes dumb choices. She's largely a victim, which doesn't tend to make for a compelling narrative.
Much better than vol.1 in the series, which I consider more of a historical romance. This novel has three heroines and alternates between their stories: Caecilia, wife of the Etruscan general, Vel Mastarna, and her life and family, several years on; Pinna, a Roman prostitute, who desires to raise herself from that lifestyle and wishes to follow a Roman general, Camillus; and a servant in Caecilia's household, demoted from her position as a potter and who seeks revenge on Caecilia, by way of her oldest son. In the midst of these stories Rome and the Etruscans are fighting a war; Caecilia, by marrying a Etruscan, is ostensibly the cause of war between the two city-states and although the marriage was none of Caecilia's doing--a political match, supposedly to bring peace, has led to war.… (altro)
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- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 228
- Popolarità
- #98,697
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 20
- ISBN
- 14
- Preferito da
- 2
Particularly interesting was the addition of two other narrators: Semni and Pinna. I love these books for their Ancient Rome feel, and reading about life at other social and economic levels was riveting.
This was a stay-up-too-late book. :)