A review by bagpuss
Armadale by Wilkie Collins, John Sutherland

3.0

Hmmm, I prefer rating things out of ten as it gives more room for manoeuvre. It didn't deserve four stars but three is too low. One word springs to mind - contrived. I was expecting that as all these melodramas hinge on coincidence but somehow it all seemed a little bit too much. That said, I did enjoy it a lot of the time and never wanted to stop reading. Unfortunately my opinion of Wilkie Collins is now not as high as it was