by Judith Merkle Riley
Started off potentially strong and then it became uneven for me. And then the ending picked up and finished with a cliffhanger. The story starts when Margaret is in her early twenties and married to her second husband. She desires to write her memoirs so she hires the reluctant Brother Gregory. ...
This novel was a pleasure to read. Not that I can't find fault. Margaret of Ashbury, the wife of a rich merchant, hires a clerk to dictate her memoirs in the year 1355. The narrative switches between the present day and her experiences with her amanuensis, Brother Gregory in third person, and her ow...
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Love that Margaret is a vegetarian!
This was a very enjoyable read–historical fiction which draws on the Margery Kempe tradition while remaining a very different kind of story. It has a sly humor which I found really fit the characters and the time. Will definitely be reading the rest in the series!
A very amusing story about a 14th century woman with a decidedly 20th century sensibility. Riley has a deft hand with characterization and plot, but the modernity of everyone's ripostes and thought processes spoilt the flavor for me.
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