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Frances Paige

Auteur van The Lonely Shore

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Bevat de namen: Jay Allerton, Fgerances Paige

Bevat ook: Jane Wallace (1)

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Werken van Frances Paige

The Lonely Shore (1999) 9 exemplaren
The Glasgow Girls (1994) 9 exemplaren
The Silk Mill (1988) 7 exemplaren
The Butterfly Girl (1995) 6 exemplaren
Growing Up (2005) 6 exemplaren
Men Who March Away (1989) 5 exemplaren
Glint of Gold (2006) 5 exemplaren
Maeve's Daughter (1987) 5 exemplaren
The Learning Curve (2007) 4 exemplaren
The Painted Ladies (1995) 4 exemplaren
The Sholtie Burn (1986) 3 exemplaren
Vote for a Silk Gown (1974) 3 exemplaren
A Day at the Races (2002) 3 exemplaren
The Distaff Side (1988) 3 exemplaren
Three Girls (1983) 3 exemplaren
Lost Time (1985) 2 exemplaren
Moonshadows (1989) 2 exemplaren
Bomber's Moon (1982) 2 exemplaren
Kindred Spirits (1972) 2 exemplaren
Mothers and Daughters (1987) 2 exemplaren
Knowing One's Place (2004) 2 exemplaren
The Sholtie Flyer (1990) 2 exemplaren
The Hidden Venus (1977) 2 exemplaren
The Man Who Liked Couscous (1976) 2 exemplaren
The Dreaming Towers (1973) 2 exemplaren
For the Best of Reasons (1972) 1 exemplaar
Fugitive Summer (1981) 1 exemplaar
Look, You Too Can be a Success (1970) 1 exemplaar
The Searchers (1971) 1 exemplaar
The Gulf (1973) 1 exemplaar
The Headless Doll (1978) 1 exemplaar
The End is the Beginning (1970) 1 exemplaar
Game to Miss Cowan (2001) 1 exemplaar
The Roof Garden (1969) 1 exemplaar
The Laurel Path (1990) 1 exemplaar
The Summer Fields (2001) 1 exemplaar
Love is a Stranger (2000) 1 exemplaar
The Swimming Pool (1998) 1 exemplaar
So Long at the Fair (1997) 1 exemplaar
The Confetti Bed (1996) 1 exemplaar
Blood Ties (1995) 1 exemplaar
Bid Time Return (2003) 1 exemplaar

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Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Wallace, Jane
Allerton, Jay
Paige, Frances
Geslacht
female
Geboorteplaats
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Woonplaatsen
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Lake District, England, UK
Korte biografie
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Frances Paige has lived near the Lake District, in the North West England for many years. She paints and writes, and has completed over fourty novels. She is also known under the pseudonyms Jane Wallace and Jay Allerton. In 1975, her novel "Vote for a Silk Gown" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She went on to write many more novels as well as a Scottish saga which, it has been said, redefined the sub-genre and made her a model for budding authors everywhere.

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‘A Day at the Races’ is about a young woman called Nora. We meet her when she’s on her way to France to watch a horse race in. The journey there is a bit disjointed, with Nora’s thoughts and reflections interspersed with descriptions of the scenery. She chats with some of the people on her coach, and then becomes better acquainted with a young man called Richard, whose eyes she doesn’t like…

It's mostly set in 1989, though it feels rather older than that. Unfortunately, despite most of the story being told from Nora's perspective, we never really get to know her. Conversations are stilted and dull, and her thoughts are convoluted, revealing very little about her as a person. I think the novel was meant to be a kind of coming-of-age story, it didn’t work for me at all. There are no surprises, no believable relationships, and the predictable ending is a long time in coming.

I hate to be so negative about a book; evidently the publisher approved of it, and no doubt it appeals to many. The author is quite prolific and has won some prizes for historical fiction, so she's evidently highly thought of. But this is not a book I enjoyed, nor would I recommend it.
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SueinCyprus | Jan 26, 2016 |

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Statistieken

Werken
46
Leden
117
Populariteit
#168,597
Waardering
3.1
Besprekingen
1
ISBNs
125
Talen
2

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