![]() ![]() ![]() Firstly, in Chapter 1, Sylvia looks back at Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953, which took place when Sylvia was 19 years old (we know this because the very first sentence of the book tells us that she was just twenty-four when in 1958.") - and yet she "had been woken early by her parents" and "had stood amid the heaving, cheering crowd, valiantly trying to wave the little Union Jack flag that her father had bought, trembling with excitement at the spectacle she was too small to see". Sylvia, the "heroine", is a two-dimensional character, and deeply unappealing as a person, there is a peculiar Part Two tacked on at the end which seems really contrived, and the plot is pretty much run-of-the-mill chick-lit - not what I expected from Penguin.īut my biggest gripe is the appalling howlers that appear to have escaped both the author and her editors. This was my first Salley Vickers book, and it will be my last. ![]()
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