Feb
25
2008

RC Part 11 – The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon

The Rose of Sebastopol Next on my reading list this month was The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon. The story is about Mariella Lingwood, a demure (and a bit wet) young woman and her feisty, headstrong cousin Rosa Burr. Rosa heads off to Russia to work as a nurse in the Crimean War and the story follows Mariella and her determination to find her cousin when they lose contact with her.

I really struggled to get into this book, and it probably took me about 10 chapters before I wanted to pick it up and find out what happened next. However, I found that the characters grew on me, along with my fascination of the details of the Crimea. I will admit that at the beginning I found Mariella really irritating… she was just so wet and willing to be walked over by everyone but as the story grew so did my fondness for her. She developed some of the feistiness that took her cousin Rosa off to the Crimea and she faced some of her deepest fears.

This is not the sort of novel that I would usually pick up but it was on The Richard and Judy Book Club list this year. I ended up really enjoying it and I found the medical details and descriptions of the war gruesome but fascinating. If you like a good historical novel then I am certain you’ll enjoy this one!

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