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stanro 's review for:
The Last Painting of Sara De Vos
by Dominic Smith
medium-paced
The plot, and the details about art restoration, kept me very interested. There are three threads of story that intertwine - the 17 century painter Sara De Vos, a New York lawyer in the 1950s whose family has owned the painting “since before Isaac Newton was born,” and the Australian art restorer and art history academic.
I’ve read this on audio, and usually I appreciate the professional reader and what they bring. In this case, however, the surprising failure of the reader to accurately speak in the Australian accent of the principal character jarred. (To my ear, the accent oscillated between a soft New Zealand accent and a soft South African one, setting nowhere on the continent lying between those two places.)
I’ve read this on audio, and usually I appreciate the professional reader and what they bring. In this case, however, the surprising failure of the reader to accurately speak in the Australian accent of the principal character jarred. (To my ear, the accent oscillated between a soft New Zealand accent and a soft South African one, setting nowhere on the continent lying between those two places.)