Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Erik Barnum

A lovely and yet harrowing story that will charm and break your heart simultaneously, this brilliant novel is told from the point of view of a young girl whose island home is disrupted by civil war. Into her life comes Mr. Watts, an eccentric and mysterious man who introduces the children of the island to Victorian England through Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations. This is a fiercely intelligent and th... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Bruce Anderson

Driven by loss of family, home, and belongings, Franklin and Margaret make their perilous way across a violent decimated heartland, seeking passage on the seasonal emigrant ships to (so they hope) better lives in unscathed regions across the sea. As in his earlier novel The Gift Of Stones, Jim Crace makes vivid a world without modern culture and technology, except that in The Pesthouse, the wo... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Christopher Law

This book is a masterpiece of concision. It contains ten psychologically full characters, four countries and plot to connect these disparate pieces in 254 pages. The foil, James Pak, is part of an extended family surrounded by tragedies of twentieth century international conflict. His father was shipped to England from Ukraine by James's Grandmother, to shield him from the coming war, after which he emig... read more>>>