![]() ![]() Mariana sweeps you off your feet from the very first page. I’ve said this about other split-time novels, but it so often happens that books like this one sacrifice the modern-day narrative for that which takes place in the past not so with this book. The world of the late 17th century is portrayed in painstaking detail, and Kearsley’s modern-day world is just as meticulously described. ![]() This is the second Susanna Kearsley novel I’ve read (after Sophia’s Secret, which is fantastic, too), and let me just say that she’s won herself another fan. Not only does Julia live the life of her predecessor, she actually is Mariana, feeling her feelings and thinking her thoughts. She begins having “flashbacks” of sorts, to when she was Mariana Farr, a young woman living during the Restoration. ![]() In Mariana, Julia Beckett moves from London to Greywethers, a house in the country that has seemingly called out to her for years. ![]()
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