22 July 2009

John Boyne's The House of Special Purpose



I've just finished reading this - a good story offering a perspective on the fall of the Romanov dynasty in Russia from a servant who escaped to England and built a life. While some aspects of the story (the identity of his wife, for example) were kind of obvious fairly early on, and the outcome was kind of heralded at the start simply because of the decision to mix the time frames up, it was very enjoyable and informative.

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