Ellen L. Ekstrom
Auteur van Tallis' Third Tune
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Fotografie: Author photograph courtesy of Nicolas A. Fernandez.
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- Gangbare naam
- Ekstrom, Ellen L.
- Officiële naam
- Fernandez, Ellen L. Ekstrom
- Geboortedatum
- 1953-05-12
- Geslacht
- female
- Beroepen
- author
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Ellen Ekstrom, author of Tallis' Third Tune (April 2-6) in Author Chat (april 2012)
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 9
- Leden
- 63
- Populariteit
- #268,028
- Waardering
- 4.0
- Besprekingen
- 7
- ISBNs
- 14
The story rushes along with a rather hectic Through the looking-glass illogicality, but it's basically a good old-fashioned romance. Maybe it's made a little too obvious to the reader which of the men is going to turn out to be Mr Wickham and which will be Mr Darcy, but our heroine has to work it out for herself, of course, and we engage with her difficulties as she does so. The writing is fairly fluent, although Alice as narrator sounds a little too naïve to be really convincing as an academic historian. As a result, the various "high-culture" references in the text feel a touch too much like name-dropping, although there is little you can really put your finger on that is wrong until the story gets to the big scenes in York and Scarborough. Then, if like me you happen to know North Yorkshire rather well, you do spot a few rather glaring holes. But that probably doesn't matter for most readers.… (meer)