Darkling
Laura Beatty
Darkling
Laura Beatty
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She is also accused of living in the past: her days are spent amid the life and letters of Lady Brilliana Harley, who lived nearly four hundred years ago during the English Civil War.
Brilliana Harley is a Puritan, a lone Roundhead in a county of Royalists, and it is not long before her enemies sit down in siege around her.
A novel of masterly understatement... Laura Beatty uses [landscape] with subtle obliquity as a grid for mapping the emotional lives of her twin heroines, women divided by nearly four centuries.
From the virtuoso opening chapter, Beatty takes an offbeat, impressionistic approach... She is interested in the darkness of history, belief and the motivations of the heart: in how "places make people". Beatty's prose swoops and soars; she is particularly good on animals and birds, but can also turn her nature writer's intense gaze on the behaviour of humans.
The lives of two women, centuries apart are curiously entwined. Beatty makes you feel the layers of history existing alongside the present, so that the stories blend seamlessly... Beautifully written...
Binding together the lives of two different yet strangely similar women, Beatty weaves a ruminative and richly rewarding narrative
A well-researched novel, bringing exciting historical events into an engaging and easily absorbed format. By merit of her excellent writing, Beatty has avoided the usual pitfalls of historical novels by giving it a modern twist, moving effortlessly between the past and present. I glimpsed what life might have been like in England nearly four hundred years ago... Prepare to be reeled in hook, line and sinker with Darkling – it won’t disappoint!
Laura Beatty’s debut novel Pollard won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award in 2009, was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and published to critical acclaim: ‘A fierce and wonderful book’ (Observer), ‘Enchanting... Beatty is a writer of extraordinary power’ (Literary Review), ‘heralds an exceptional talent’ (Guardian). She lives in Wiltshire.
Brilliana Harley is a Puritan, a lone Roundhead in a county of Royalists, and it is not long before her enemies sit down in siege around her.
A novel of masterly understatement... Laura Beatty uses [landscape] with subtle obliquity as a grid for mapping the emotional lives of her twin heroines, women divided by nearly four centuries.
From the virtuoso opening chapter, Beatty takes an offbeat, impressionistic approach... She is interested in the darkness of history, belief and the motivations of the heart: in how "places make people". Beatty's prose swoops and soars; she is particularly good on animals and birds, but can also turn her nature writer's intense gaze on the behaviour of humans.
The lives of two women, centuries apart are curiously entwined. Beatty makes you feel the layers of history existing alongside the present, so that the stories blend seamlessly... Beautifully written...
Binding together the lives of two different yet strangely similar women, Beatty weaves a ruminative and richly rewarding narrative
A well-researched novel, bringing exciting historical events into an engaging and easily absorbed format. By merit of her excellent writing, Beatty has avoided the usual pitfalls of historical novels by giving it a modern twist, moving effortlessly between the past and present. I glimpsed what life might have been like in England nearly four hundred years ago... Prepare to be reeled in hook, line and sinker with Darkling – it won’t disappoint!
Laura Beatty’s debut novel Pollard won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award in 2009, was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and published to critical acclaim: ‘A fierce and wonderful book’ (Observer), ‘Enchanting... Beatty is a writer of extraordinary power’ (Literary Review), ‘heralds an exceptional talent’ (Guardian). She lives in Wiltshire.