![]() ![]() ![]() I also appreciated the fact that, as Sarah grows, her narrative seems to widen and deepen. Sarah's concerns, and her perspective, are genuinely those of a seven-year-old, which I appreciated. Purcell's death, The Silent Shore felt immediately authentic, and completely convincing, to me. ![]() Starting out in a quiet - one almost might say, slow - fashion, with the aftermath of Mrs. ![]() Mackenzie is wrapped up in the Purcells' complicated relations with the Mackenzie boys endures the tragedy of World War I, and the loss it brings to her family circle and comes to terms with the fact that, unlike her sisters, she is not an artist, and must follow another path. In between is happiness and heartbreak, as Sarah studies under the tutelage of the Purcells' neighbor, and the village Rector, the Rev. In fact, in the United States the book has been published as Sarah's Story, and that's just what it is, following Sarah from the time of her mother's death, in 1910, through her years being raised by her sisters (as well as the family maid, Annie), to the day she is ready, as a young woman, to go off to study at Oxford. The first of four novels devoted to the lives and adventures of the Purcell sisters - Sarah, Frances, Julia and Gwen - who grow to adulthood in the shadow of Somerset's Quantock Hills, The Silent Shore is told from the perspective of the youngest sister, Sarah. ![]()
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