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review 2015-12-30 15:04

bookshelves: published-2008, ukraine, series, spring-2013, fraudio, recreational-drugs, serial-killer, debut, slavic, gorefest, lifestyles-deathstyles, mystery-thriller, historical-fiction, families, winter-20152016, dec-2015-free-for-all, re-visit-2015

Read from April 14, 2013 to December 23, 2015

23.12.2015: Re-visit via the film

Had binned this but after such glowing reviews by trusted friends it went back on the shelves.

Read by Dennis Boutsikaris

Excellent mid three. #87 TBR Busting 2013

NEWS 15:04:2015 - Hollywood's Child 44 pulled in Russia after falling foul of culture ministry: Fears of censorship in Russia as Ridley Scott film about serial killer, starring Gary Oldman, withdrawn over ‘distortion of facts and interpretation of events’. Source

review 2015-03-28 13:05

The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles

Bettie's Books

The Seamstress - Frances de Pontes Peebles

bookshelves: brazil, one-penny-wonder, paper-read, women, period-piece, adventure, published-2008, spring-2015, tbr-busting-2015, weapon-evolution, historical-fiction

Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Wanda and Lee

Read from March 15, 2013 to March 25, 2015

Description: As seamstresses, the young sisters EmIlia and Luzia dos Santos know how to cut, mend, and conceal--useful skills in the lawless backcountry of Brazil, where ruthless land barons feud with bands of outlaw "cangaceiros," trapping innocent residents in the crossfire. EmIlia, a naive romantic, dreams of falling in love with a gentleman and escaping to a big city. Quick-tempered Luzia also longs for escape, finding it in her craft and secret prayers to the saints she believes once saved her life. But when Luzia is abducted by "cangaceiros" led by the infamous Hawk and EmIlia stumbles into a marriage with the son of a wealthy and politically powerful doctor, the sisters' quiet lives diverge in ways they never would have imagined.

Dedication:


To the women - living and dead -
of my family, all of them
ladies and guerreiras.
And to James, who always believed.

Northeast Brazil (2) During the Old Republic.

Opening: Recife, Brazil, January 14, 1935: Emily awoke alone. She lay in the massive antique that had once been her mother-in-law's bridal bed, and was now her own.

Big fat juicy fiction where the reader feels the proximity and the time period.

Adventure women Brazil one-penny-wonder paper-read period-piece published-2008