While purporting to be a study of his women, this is also a revealing study of the Sun King himself. Impressively researched, it is less dynamic and brilliant than some of Fraser's other books, as if the struggle to cope with such a plethora of information shows beneath the scholarship. However, cope she does and it gains brilliance and momentum towards the end, portraying the deaths of many of the protagonists in a deeply felt and affecting way.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 78 Autumn 2015 ) |
