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A review by readingspells
A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
3.0
This is the first book in the Women's Prize for Fiction reading challenge that I am running. The challenge is to read all the winners of the price, currently 27. A Spell of Winter was the 1st ever book to win the prize back in 1996 but to be absolutely honest I really am not sure why.
This book is slow and often times dull. Yes the writing is lovely in places and definitely pulls you into the atmosphere and setting but the story meanderers around often hinting at things but never really explaining or answering them.
It does get a bit more interesting about half way through but then it kind of peters out and the ending is just so nothing leaving so many questions unanswered.
It does tackle some very taboo subjects so maybe it won for those reasons but the actual story it tells feels weak. I really don't know what is the point of this book at all. I gave it 3 stars for the descriptive writing but the story itself is more like a 2 star.
CW: Mental Health, Parental Desertion, Incest, Abortion, Death, War.
This book is slow and often times dull. Yes the writing is lovely in places and definitely pulls you into the atmosphere and setting but the story meanderers around often hinting at things but never really explaining or answering them.
It does get a bit more interesting about half way through but then it kind of peters out and the ending is just so nothing leaving so many questions unanswered.
It does tackle some very taboo subjects so maybe it won for those reasons but the actual story it tells feels weak. I really don't know what is the point of this book at all. I gave it 3 stars for the descriptive writing but the story itself is more like a 2 star.
CW: Mental Health, Parental Desertion, Incest, Abortion, Death, War.