Beautifully written - Balint's words make you feel as though you're with Sarah on that journey from England to Australia. This is her debut novel and I think I like it better than her follow up book, "Ophelia's Fan."
Helpful Score: 3
Dreamlike and full of symbolism. Very interesting look at how people immigrated to Austrailia, and a love story.
Helpful Score: 2
A nicely written account of "unmarried women" journeying to the New World in the steerage section of a ship. Evidently based on real letters.
Helpful Score: 2
This is an interesting book which chronicles a young woman's trip from England to Australia in the mid 1800s. The hardship is unbelievable and well-written. Past and present are skillfully woven together until the reader learns the surprising truth of the journey. Highly recommended.
Thought this to be one of the worst books I have read in quite some time. I should have simply stopped reading it, but I figured it HAD to get better.
Felt it was so discombobulated, and almost written on purpose so no one really understood what was going on. Oh well!
Felt it was so discombobulated, and almost written on purpose so no one really understood what was going on. Oh well!
Ok, well I didn't actually read it, but my sister did and didn't like it at all.
