Katherine Addison created an intricate layered world in her novel The Goblin Emperor, which she revisited in The Witness for the Dead and in this story which shares some of the same characters. In it she gives us a window into another corner of the world, where a governess works to determine the future of her young charge.
What a treat. I am such a fan of Katherine Addison's novels, so I was eagerly anticipating this story, and it did not disappoint. One of the things that appeals to me about her novels is the way she has built a (rich and fascinating) world that has many unkind hierarchies, and then she layers in compassion, resistance, and interconnectedness through brightly-drawn individuals. It's wonderful to see that brought into a quite short form, compared to lengthy and wonderfully slow-developing novels.
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What a treat. I am such a fan of Katherine Addison's novels, so I was eagerly anticipating this story, and it did not disappoint. One of the things that appeals to me about her novels is the way she has built a (rich and fascinating) world that has many unkind hierarchies, and then she layers in compassion, resistance, and interconnectedness through brightly-drawn individuals. It's wonderful to see that brought into a quite short form, compared to lengthy and wonderfully slow-developing novels.
I thoroughly enjoyed this! The intense earnest quietness, a story that's about navigating a world vs changing it...