A review by angelica_jardinerica
The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes by Ruth Hogan

2.0

In my review of 'The Keeper of Lost Things' I wrote that there were moments when it was in danger of slipping into the realms of trite chick lit. The problem with this book is that it did just that a bit too often. I found too much of the storyline predictable, the comic scenes and the love interest embarrassingly clichéd and the vocabulary an inappropriate attempt to lift it out of that framework. Ruth Hogan shows she can write well, particularly in her descriptions of Victorian attitudes to death, but the rest of the novel remained unconvincingly two dimensional for me.