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Girl From The South

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I love all of Joanna Trollope's books. This one is a bit different, since it's mostly set in America. But the characters are still accessible and beautifully drawn, and the story is fascinating. I love the descriptions of the places and locations, and Ms. Trollope's prose is, as always, elegant. This is a wonderful book to add to your collection of this author's work.

I was a big fan of Joanna Trollope's earlier books, especially The Choir, but this is not one of her better efforts. The characters are uninteresting and unengaging and there's not much of a plot. Everyone just sort of flops around feeling inadequate. My pet peeve is British authors who write American characters who sound British. This book is riddled with expressions that no American would use. We're all used to that in British books, and it's fine when the character is British, but when the character is supposed to be a born and raised American it is SOOOO annoying! It immediately destroys the book's credibility, just as an obvious historical anachronism or modern turn of phrase can ruin a period novel. If a British author does insist on writing American characters, she should at least have a good American editor for the American edition. I had the feeling that the editor hadn't even read through the manuscript, as there were also a number of sloppy spelling errors (the kind that should have been caught by a spell checker). My advice is, don't waste your money!