A Difficult Subject, But Well Written
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Gillian Bradshaw was born in the US and was brought up in Washington, Santiago, Chile and Michigan. She is a classics graduate from Newnham College, Cambridge. She has won much acclaim as an historical novelist. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and their four children.
This book isn't exactly laugh a minute in fact it is quite dour in places, but also thought provoking. Plus it features something that most of us would love to do, or is that just my warped mind. What am I talking about. Blowing the whistle on a multi-national company, or in this case the main character of the book, Antonia Lanchester, is trying to expose her employers.
Being told she has not long to live has encouraged her to pass incriminating files to an environmental campaign group. The files link the swish furnishing company that she is employed by to n atrocity committed by illegal loggers in Borneo. However Antonia is soon out of her depth and she has to struggle against unseen enemies, as well as the cancer that is eating away at her brain.
The author, Gillian Bradshaw shows that she is equally at home in the 21st century as she is in the fourth, or whenever her historical novels take place. Her attention to detail is second to none and her writing style makes for easy reading, even with such a difficult subject matter.
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