I'm a fan of a good historical fiction book but I'm not sure what to make of this.
Beyond the odd word and speech patterns, and the attitudes to women is this much of a historical novel or more or a romance/romance story with the setting chosen as a base rather than an inspiration?
We're given the viewpoint of Mrs Palmer,a fairly new wife to a up and coming pharmacist who has just opened his new pharmacy in a grand opening when a women approaches her claiming to know her husband in some capacity previously.
We get hints that Mrs Palmer isn't entirely happy with her husband, and that he may be a controlling angry man, or that may be a clever misdirection for the opener or just a sign of the time period.It's too hard to judge in a first impression.
Certainly when this women elicits a response from Mr Palmer and gets whisked away it starts seeming a bit more mysterious and Mrs Palmer seems to be curious despite her timid introduction, but all in all I can't claim to be terribly interested in what happens next.
Beyond the odd word and speech patterns, and the attitudes to women is this much of a historical novel or more or a romance/romance story with the setting chosen as a base rather than an inspiration?
We're given the viewpoint of Mrs Palmer,a fairly new wife to a up and coming pharmacist who has just opened his new pharmacy in a grand opening when a women approaches her claiming to know her husband in some capacity previously.
We get hints that Mrs Palmer isn't entirely happy with her husband, and that he may be a controlling angry man, or that may be a clever misdirection for the opener or just a sign of the time period.It's too hard to judge in a first impression.
Certainly when this women elicits a response from Mr Palmer and gets whisked away it starts seeming a bit more mysterious and Mrs Palmer seems to be curious despite her timid introduction, but all in all I can't claim to be terribly interested in what happens next.