Set in Oxford during the Restoration, this intellectual whodunit centres around a murder and the young woman convicted of the crime. Four different narrators tell their version of events, each with an axe to grind and so possibly unreliable. I was absolutely engrossed, especially because of the insights into the state of politics, religion, philosophy and medical science during this tumultuous period. The characters are both real and fictional and the ending is brilliant.
(Denise Lewis - bwl 97 Summer 2020 ) |
