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Vixen
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The old adage goes that you should never judge a book by its cover. It's true that I adore the cover of this book, and it's also true that I decided to read this book because of the cover, which I guess in part means that my friend, the cover designer, did a really good job!
It wasn't until I had this book in front of me that I realised that it's author, Rosie Garland, was also the singer in Goth Band, the March Violets, who featured on the soundtrack to one of my favourite 80's movies, Some Kind Of Wonderful. I know, completely unrelated, fascinatingly uninteresting fact for you.
This is an interesting, clever read in alluringly poetic and lyrical prose, that follows the arrival of the great plague to a village in Devon. It is told from the perspective of three protagonists, a Priest, a girl, and their maid (the Vixen or fox of the title). Where is starts off gentle and beautiful, we are plunged int disalusionament and delirium as our protagonists surcumb to the symptons and fate of the Black Death.
It wasn't until I had this book in front of me that I realised that it's author, Rosie Garland, was also the singer in Goth Band, the March Violets, who featured on the soundtrack to one of my favourite 80's movies, Some Kind Of Wonderful. I know, completely unrelated, fascinatingly uninteresting fact for you.
This is an interesting, clever read in alluringly poetic and lyrical prose, that follows the arrival of the great plague to a village in Devon. It is told from the perspective of three protagonists, a Priest, a girl, and their maid (the Vixen or fox of the title). Where is starts off gentle and beautiful, we are plunged int disalusionament and delirium as our protagonists surcumb to the symptons and fate of the Black Death.
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April 2, 2015
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Apr 29, 2019 03:12PM
I totally agree with you about this book! Just a point about The March Violets - by the time Some Kind of Wonderful came out the band no longer featured Rosie Garland or lyricist Simon 'Detroit' Denbigh. They'd left a few years before. The track on Some Kind of Wonderful features either Cleo Murray or Joanna Moy on vocals, I'm not sure which.
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