![]() What ties all four stories together is the life of an enigmatic young servant woman, Sarah Blundy, whose presence touches each narrator in sometimes intense ways. ![]() Some of the narrators and characters in the novel are historical figures such as Anthony Wood, John Locke, Thomas Ken, John Thurloe, and Robert Boyle, among others.Īs the stories often contradicted each other, the reader faces one persistent question: “Whose story can be trusted?” I found both the first and last narratives the most compelling, but the second narrator was unlikeable and the third narrator was so tedious we nearly stopped reading the book altogether! This book is a historical mystery set in Oxford in the early 1660s and is broken into 4 parts and narrated by four men with very different views and whose stories are intricately woven with subplots, political machinations, lust, and at times, violence. ![]()
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