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A review by thesapphiccelticbookworm
Bear Woman by Karolina Ramqvist
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
I received this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for a fair review.
This is a memoir of Swedish novelist, Karolina Ramqvist's time writing and researching the story of Marguerite de la Rocque, a French noble woman abandoned on a small island north of Nova Scotia in 1542. Translated from the original Swedish by Saskia Vogel.
The writing feels disjointed and aimless; Ramqvist frequently floats from one thought to the next, without developing on them. The glimpses into the possible life (there's not a lot of records about her life available) of Marguerite and interesting and it seems like an extraordinary story, unfortunately, we don't get to see much of it in this book.
This is a memoir of Swedish novelist, Karolina Ramqvist's time writing and researching the story of Marguerite de la Rocque, a French noble woman abandoned on a small island north of Nova Scotia in 1542. Translated from the original Swedish by Saskia Vogel.
The writing feels disjointed and aimless; Ramqvist frequently floats from one thought to the next, without developing on them. The glimpses into the possible life (there's not a lot of records about her life available) of Marguerite and interesting and it seems like an extraordinary story, unfortunately, we don't get to see much of it in this book.