![]() ![]() The only clue to her identity is a book of fairy tales found in the suitcase. After the ship lands, she is standing on the dock in Maryborough, Australia with her child-sized white suitcase when Hugh, a kind dockworker, takes her home. ![]() And then the cousin disappears, leaving Nell completely alone. ![]() It opens with Nell, a four-year-old who boards a ship in England bound for Australia as she holds the hand of her dead mother's cousin and trusted friend. Taking place in the first two decades of the 1900s, 1975, and 2005, this is the story of several girls/women in one family. It's a little slow to get started-so stick with it-but it really takes off by the fifth chapter. And I can't imagine it being written in any other way. But in the hands of Kate Morton, it is brilliant. The novel bounces back and forth in time and place in way that could be jarring and absolutely discombobulated in the hands of a less-talented writer. The end result is a book that is both entrancing and highly original. Author Kate Morton has crafted a novel that almost doubles as a fairy tale. But this is so much more than an ingenious story. ![]() What will draw in most readers almost immediately is the complex, multilayered plot that is so twisted (in a good way!) it's nearly impossible to figure out (too far) in advance. An Engrossing, Ingenious Page-Turner That Doubles as a Highly Imaginative Fairy Tale ![]()
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