![]() We're soon immersed in the daily and domestic lives of the two first-person narrators. ![]() I've recently enjoyed Tracy Chevalier's latest novel, At the Edge of the Orchard, set in nineteenth-century Ohio and California, and now can't think why I hadn't read this one sooner, as its subject - Mary Anning and her fossil discoveries in the early 19th century - is so obviously appealing.Ĭhevalier's hallmark is to make historical settings and people seem fresh and immediate she never lets research overload the story or weigh it down with archaic diction. ![]()
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