Prue Sarn first saw Kester Woodseaves at a love spinning, and tried to forget that she was hare-shotten and accursed. One night he came to meet her. After the firing of the harvest and the bitterness and violence that Gideon, her brother, brings to the family, only Kester can save Prue.
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Prue Sarn first saw Kester Woodseaves at a love spinning, and tried to forget that she was hare-shotten and accursed. One night he came to meet her. After the firing of the harvest and the bitterness and violence that Gideon, her brother, brings to the family, only Kester can save Prue.
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Used: good. Size: 7x1x5; Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Contemporary Fiction; Good mass market paperback; tanning pages; ink inside front cover and marker line; tips/edges bumped; crease to cover and/or spine; slight signs of wear; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.
The sad story is that if I say too much good about this book, other readers might have high expectations and be disappointed.
The truth is that I was enchanted by Mary Webb's poetic writing and her descriptions of nature, as well as her insights into human nature! I also liked very much the strange, eerie "ambiance" of the whole story, and it's setting in what seems to be a past time long gone.
What more can I say? I fell in love with this book!
AOfromPA
Oct 25, 2009
Lyrical beauty
What I love are the descriptions of the beauty of Prue's surroundings: the fields, the hum of insects, rippling water ('troubling of the mere'), or the smell of apples in her attic. I believe that the 'severely dated' language mentioned by other reviewers evokes a place and time long gone but worth remembering. This and the gentle humor are what make Precious Bane one of the most poignant variations of the Cinderella story that I've ever read.
