![]() She has no information about this person's age, her marital status, or her family connections. Connie's first research challenge is to look through 17th century church records to locate some reference to Deliverance Dane. ![]() Byatt made this exciting and fascinating. Byatt did so well in "Possession " a major component of the book is Connie's research through various libraries. I would call this an "academic thriller" of the type that A.S. ![]() She tracks the existence of Deliverance Dane's physick book, also tracking several of the women of her family. In the course of her summer she meets a convenient love interest (single, handsome, a restoration expert who dabbles in history). Over the summer, she discovers the name "Deliverance Dane" on a piece of parchment rolled into the barrel of a key hidden in an old Bible in her grandmother's house and she embarks on a quest to find out about her. She is simultaneously saddled with clearing out her grandmother's house and selling it after it has stood empty for over 20 years. candidate at Harvard, under some pressure to come up with her thesis topic. How do you evaluate a book apart from the marketing push behind it? It's not easy-would I have liked this book better if I had just stumbled on it? Hard to tell. ![]() Picked this one up after seeing highly positive reviews, as well as a major push placement at Barnes & Noble. ![]()
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