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A review by remembered_reads
No Place for a Lady by Gill Paul
3.0
This Crimean War novel is an odd mix of things. We follow two British sisters to the Crimean (one a nurse, the other following a husband) through a series of wartime tales of drama and trauma. The historical details are sometimes central and discussed at length (historical figures like Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale make regular appearances), but when history would be inconvenient, we get the bits of anachronism that would make sense in the context of a genre romance, but since this (despite being published by Avon) isn't one - it's closer to a family drama/book club/chick-lit mashup -it feels out of sync with the rest of the work.
There are several things going on here and they're generally competently done, but not quite well done. And I imagine if someone went into this knowing nothing about the Crimean war (or mid-19th century British/French/Ottoman/Russian military history in general), it wouldn't be a terrible introduction.
There are several things going on here and they're generally competently done, but not quite well done. And I imagine if someone went into this knowing nothing about the Crimean war (or mid-19th century British/French/Ottoman/Russian military history in general), it wouldn't be a terrible introduction.