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Title: Historical soapie
Review: I had just finished reading Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, both of which I loved and thought maybe historical fiction is a genre I shouldn't write off. Year of Wonders is set in the time of the plague in London and I was very interested to read it. I tried, I really tried but the book read very Mills and Boon and I was so bored and irritated I couldn't even finish it. This surprised me as the book came highly recommended by an old friend, an English teacher too! Maybe she had read it as a young girl, maybe it was suitable for secondary school students but I found it banal, almost like watching a BBC historical soapie on TV.
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