Loading ...“The Mesmerist” by Barbara Ewing
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London, 1838.
It has been a while since a book has enchanted me as much as this book. Following the life of Miss Cordelia Preston, the daughter of an actress and the niece of a mesmerist, is an emotional roller coaster. Bloomsbury wasn’t the posh area that it is now, the nobility ruled London, actors and actresses might get recognised in the street but weren’t seen as respectable, and Drury Lane wasn’t safe to walk. |
London was at the time strongly divided between the social classes. It wasn’t so much about how rich you were but about how respectable you were. More than anybody else, Miss Cordelia Preston knew that society was divided in two, and unfortunately, she belonged to the not-respectable class.
But Miss Cordelia Preston isn’t one to accept her fate without fighting and so, together with her best friend Miss Amyrillie Spoons, they embark on an exciting journey. Wounds from the past appear, scandals abound, but like soldiers of life, they carry on and on. They suffer but they also laugh a lot.
This is an empowering tale of a woman in her 40s, which was considered an old age almost two centuries ago. Strength, humor, courage, surviving. Absolutely recommended.
Links:
Barbara Ewing, Fantastic fiction page
Tags: london, strong women