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Ink R, Reviewer
Blue Hawk by Chloe Turner blew me away. As a debut novel, it is powerful, insightful and highly polished and celebrates the tenacity and fortitude of a woman faced with extreme adversity in a time where help without a price was not an option
Joan lives in 17th century Gloucestershire, but when the actions of her drunken millworker father force the family toward poverty and destitution, Joan decides to take action to save them and their reputation. However, no woman in these times should be able to create the colours and shades in cloth that she is creating? Fingers start pointing, she must be a witch!
Exceptional research and great authenticity transports the reader to another era, where life was completely different, and women were no more than chattell. The story follows the impending demise of a family, the bitterness and jealousies, the be pettiness and strife and it is written with such eloquence and clarity that I could almost be in the room
Absolutely outstanding
Thank you to Netgalley, Deixis Press and the author Chloe Turner for this stunning ARC. My review is left voluntarily and all opinions are my own
Joan lives in 17th century Gloucestershire, but when the actions of her drunken millworker father force the family toward poverty and destitution, Joan decides to take action to save them and their reputation. However, no woman in these times should be able to create the colours and shades in cloth that she is creating? Fingers start pointing, she must be a witch!
Exceptional research and great authenticity transports the reader to another era, where life was completely different, and women were no more than chattell. The story follows the impending demise of a family, the bitterness and jealousies, the be pettiness and strife and it is written with such eloquence and clarity that I could almost be in the room
Absolutely outstanding
Thank you to Netgalley, Deixis Press and the author Chloe Turner for this stunning ARC. My review is left voluntarily and all opinions are my own
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