Lily: A Tale of Revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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The darkness, though, remains - but it's in her soul, where she guards a fierce need for revenge, and later, a dark and terrible secret. And look at you now: quite upright and well behaved and earning your living, but only because we tamed you and brought you to God. Maybe she opens up and orphanage where children no longer have to go through the emotional torture of being raised by a family then separated from them.

but for this book, I reckon it was because the protagonist was ultimately so likable, driven by an inner strength to act justly for others.Despite the fact that she has little education and been shown scant affection, she is determined not to become ground down by her circumstances. When I realised (almost a year later) that Rose Tremain had a new book out and found it in a sale, I bought it without further ado. L'écriture évocatrice nous transporte en un rien de temps dans les rues de Londres à l'époque victorienne où se côtoient violence et misère, mais aussi dans les belles campagnes anglaises, seul refuge pour notre héroïne dickensienne, seul rempart contre un destin funeste auquel elle tente d'échapper.

In particular, the murder and Lily's obsession with being found out didn't feel high stakes enough to hold the plot together. Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF.Cruel nurses are one thing, but to make one of them particularly perverted gives it all an unnecessary gothic twist. This had a very modern Dickensian feel to it - full of colourful characters - wickedness, morality, London soot and the vision of a bucolic countryside. In the event it doesn’t and if this were a piece of music I’d describe it as ending in a very gentle but hopeful major key with the dynamic at a tender mezzo piano. It’s impossible not to feel empathy for Lily, and the narrative plays on one’s curiosity, pulling the reader ever onwards on a journey that is impossible to predict.