: Burning Bright
Author: Tracy Chevalier
I’m a huge Chevalier fan, but I was disappointed with this novel. I’m not sure where it was going or why it went there. It’s basically the story of a rural family in the late 1700s who move to London and their lives overlap with that of poet William Blake. This brings us some fascinating insight into the life of the writer — how he had his own printing press and the way that he produced his books — but the main story is about the family, and that story meanders for a while and finally drifts off into the nothing. While it’s realistic — little more than youngsters falling in love and becoming adults — I kept wating for something to happen and when nothing did, I was left disappointed. It’s still an excellently-written book, it’s just not up to Chevalier’s usual standards.
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