Oh, what a strange and wondrous book it was! After a way, it's a departure from the previous works of Hardinge, at least from those I've read so far, such as Cuckoo Song, A Skinful of Shadows, or The Lie Tree. This time, the author doesn't write of England's not so glorious past, of class … Continue reading Deeplight by Frances Hardinge
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The Shameless Retellings of Frances Hardinge
There is something exquisitely sincere about the books of Frances Hardinge set in the England's past. Exquisitely sincere and shameless. Because Hardinge doesn't conceal she writes from the progressive perspective and tells the past from the point of impassable classism, bigotry and sexism, and all this wrapped in unobvious fantasy elements. Each of her “past” … Continue reading The Shameless Retellings of Frances Hardinge
Left Hand of Fiction 