Maria Picass Picass থেকে Norangpura, Rajasthan 331303, India
Very impressed with this. So many attempts to channel beloved writers fall flat and so I went into this with a fair amount of skepticism. But Horowitz really pulls it off. The writing is terrific --- I was listening to this (narrated by the excellent Derek Jacobi) while running and often wanted to stop and jot down a particularly well-done line. (Siri, I'm afraid, did not understand when I tried. I mean, "house of so bad"? No clue what I wanted to say versus what she thought I said.) Horowitz is a master of description, as much in the style of Dickens as Doyle. The plot was excellent -- very well done indeed.
Novel based on part on historical chronology. I know Kay Dupont - she does a one woman play as Mary Todd Lincoln. When Kay wrote this book, she asked me to edit it. I did that and corrected a lot of historical events that were out of order. This is a novel about Mary Todd and how she and Lincoln literally loved both mentally and physically. It was an effort to build up Mary Todd Lincoln and sell the theory that Mr. Lincoln was successful because of her. I did not buy the theory.