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|title=She Rises

|author=Kate Worsley

|reviewer=Rebecca Foster

|publisher=Bloomsbury

|date=March 2013

|summary=A vividly imagined – but ultimately derivative – tale of adventure at sea and at home in 1740s Essex. Fans of Jeanette Winterson and Sarah Waters may enjoy Worsley's homoerotic take on historical fiction.

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Imagine, if you can, a lifelike eighteenth-century seafaring epic (something along the lines of Carsten Jensen's [[We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen|We, the Drowned]] or Carol Birch's [[Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch|Jamrach's Menagerie]]) crossed with Sarah Waters's ''Fingersmith''. If you then added in touches of Charles Dickens's ''Bleak House'', plus shades of the rest of the homoerotic Waters oeuvre (especially ''Night Watch'' and ''Tipping the Velvet''), you would just about have Kate Worsley's debut novel, ''She Rises'', in a nutshell.

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