As Meat Loves Salt (Harvest Original) Summary and Reviews

As Meat Loves Salt (Harvest Original)
by Maria McCann

As Meat Loves Salt (Harvest Original)
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Author: Maria McCann
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-01-07
ISBN: 015601226X
Number of pages: 584
Publisher: Harvest Books
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Book Review: A superb first novel
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a strangely compelling novel which, although over 500 pages long, never runs out of steam. Set during the English Civil War, in the first part there is no shortage of incident as we follow the narrator, the handsome and strapping Jacob, on a dangerous path that leads him to the New Model Army. After he's seen murderous military action at Winchester and Basing House, he deserts with a companion to London and what follows is a finely observed tale of dangerous love set against the quotidian life of London in the 17th century. In the final section of this excellent novel the lovers are tested to the limit at the 'Diggers' or 'True Leveller's' colony they and a motley crew of idealists, misfits and rogues are trying to establish. The book ends with Jacob on the quayside in Southampton, bound for New England. The author writes boldly and, for this reader at least, successfully, in a style that combines 'period' dialogue and expressions with more modern turns of phrase. In less skilful hands this can be disastrous, but in Maria McCann's it works very well. This could well be the debut of a novelist with a very promising future.

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