Wickett's Remedy
by:
Myla Goldberg (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B003EWAPX8
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
This book spent many nights on my bedside table. Not because it was an epically long book, it was quite short actually; but because I just couldn't immerse myself into it. It seemed distant and shallow, almost ethereal. It was like only half the story was being told but yet there were so many things...
Two storylines, both starting in the early part of the 20th century, around the Spanish flu epidemic and South Boston. The author used an interesting non-linear approach to the stories; however I believe Lydia's primary life story is much more compelling and could have been fleshed out more and the ...
On the first page of Wickett's Remedy, you (a) meet Lydia Kilkenny, (b) find yourself in a historical novel, with horse-drawn drays and cobblestones, and (c) see a note in the right-hand margin. If you're like me, you saw the note first and it made you flip through the book to see if there are other...
I should've like this book, but I didn't.
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