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Title: Powerful and Romantic
Review: Wonderful period drama/romance. It reminded me of Far From the Madding Crowd mixed with a dash of Pride & Prejudice - all set in rural early 20th Century Ireland. Mossie Sheehan is every inch the devoted Gabriel Oak; and when he hunts down and returns the silly step-daughter who has run off with a lover, it's reminiscent of Darcy's search and delivery of Lydia. That said, it isn't a five-star series. The wigs are horrific. Elizabeth settles a little too easily and quickly into the role of mother (particularly to another woman's children) and adjusts a little too happily into rural life for a woman who was raised in the city as solicitor's daughter. But all faults are forgiven on my part when Mossie Sheehan declares his love - twice (sort of). My knees buckled and I had to get a drink of water to recover my senses. All in all, the most romantic series I've seen in a long while (not counting Gaskell's incomparable North & South). You won't be disappointed.
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