![]() ![]() It’s a very different sort of book from the Medicus series and clearly not a mystery, but I’ve been fascinated to see how the story’s come alive as my colleagues have pitched in with their own imaginative take on events. Although several of the characters appear all the way through, each of us handles the story from a different viewpoint and we all have very different styles, so for example while I’m seeing events through the eyes of a slave girl in Boudica’s household, the tales involving battles are written by people who are far more skilled at that sort of thing than I am (two of them are re-enactors who’ve actually worn the kit, done the marching and handled the weaponry). Main Character: Sophie Phee Kimball, divorced middle-aged mom, account clerk for the police precinct in Sun City West, Minnesota. It’s somewhere between 140,000 and 160,000 words long – I forget exactly, sorry – and about 20,000 of them are mine. With a gift for comic timing and historic detail, Ruth Downie has conjured an. ![]() ![]() Hi Kathryn! “A Year of Ravens” is a collection of supposedly stand-alone tales by 7 authors that actually fit together to tell the story of the Boudican rebellion. Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire (The Medicus Series) Author: Ruth Downie Format: Paperback Publish Date: ISBN-10: 1596914270 ISBN-13: 9781596914278 List Price: 18. The first novel in the New York Times bestselling Gaius Petreius Ruso series. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |