The author could have kept out the modern day part of this book and it would have been a 5 star read. I loved the story of Josephine, but couldn't figure out the purpose for the story of Lina or how it played into the storyline, except to make the book longer.
An excellent first publish from a new author that I would read again. I would be interested in seeing growth in the vehicle to push the story forward. I was entirely more interested in Josephine's story, though there were parts of Lina's story that I connected with as well. I'm not sure that I have ...
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-house-girl.htmlThe House Girl is two parallel stories - two women in two different time periods and two different situations. Yet, their stories belong together in this book. It is 2004, and Lina Sparrow is a young...
Conklin is yet another lawyer-turned-novelist which makes me, once more, contemplate law school as a way to get my writer-ly career going. It doesn't hurt that this debutThis is a complex novel that develops slowly but not ponderously, threaded with various plot lines that knit together neatly, and...
It is 1852 when we first meet seventeen-year-old Josephine, on page 3 of Tara Conklin’s The House Girl, as she’s on the receiving end of a blow from her master. And she vows to leave, and never come back. Never mind that she has nowhere to go. Never mind that she’ll be punished for it. She has to go...
*Check out http://www.infinitereads.com for other reviews and sundry thoughts!* The House Girl is an intricate debut novel that blends historical and contemporary fiction. Former attorney Tara Conklin uses art as a common thread intricately to connect the lives of two very different women separated ...
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