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I really wanted to enjoy this book. Margaret George has made rather a name for herself in the world of decent quality fiction. All her novels are brick-sized, so you really do want to be confident of enjoying them before you embark upon the eight hundred or so pages. And I did enjoy it. It's beautifully written, the dialogue is refreshingly free from the cliched, stilted words found in inferior historical fiction and the backdrop is so real that you feel as though you could reach out and touch it. I just wish that Helen could have come to life in as evocative a way as the world in which she lived.

My thanks to the publisher, Pan, for sending the book.