The Last Gift edition by Carla Acheson Literature Fiction eBooks
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Imagine life in a damp and squalid room with death and disease lurking at every corner.
The year is 1866. Maggie Tanner is a young girl born to an impoverished family in the slums of London. Her grandmother's death is the first taste of her bitter circumstances followed by her mother's newborn twins. Her father’s constant insobriety and lack of employment means they are all soon destined for the workhouse.
A tight-lipped nun acquires a position for Maggie as a servant for an upper class family, but there she encounters further turmoil by falling pregnant to their eldest son. She returns home only to be plunged into the social stigma of bastardy and shame. As her life unfolds into every victorian girl's worst nightmare she does all she can to save her baby from a disease-ridden orphanage and takes drastic decisions to save both the child and herself, but when her pain and loss continues to haunt her for years to come, one unexpected day, one last gift changes everything.
The Last Gift edition by Carla Acheson Literature Fiction eBooks
I was very unsure about reading it. It looked interesting, but the "look inside" seemed very simplistic, and indeed it seemed a bit trite for the first few chapters. Then it began to get better and better and by the last half it became wonderful. It was about the life of a very impoverished girl in 1800's England, very Dickens-like literature. I did not expect suspense, but WOW, the suspense cam hurtling in, and more than any other book I've read, the reader cannot help but go half-crazy waiting to find out the ending. Please, Ms. Acheson, give us more fiction!Product details
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The Last Gift edition by Carla Acheson Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
It was a good book and would recommed it to read. I enjoyed reading it and wpould read it again.
This starts out slow but gathers steam and becomes a story I couldn't put down. It's a clean read and I appreciate the writer for that.
This is such a moving story that it needs to be shared. The historical setting is painfuly accurate and the characters are well thought out. It is one of those books you find yourself thinking about long after you finish.
There are two very different but equally detracting problems with this book, one being punctuation errors and the other being logic errors. Both made this story hard to enjoy. There really is only one character here with everyone else just shallowly rotating around her. And it's hard to empathize with this character as she gets an unrealistic number of opportunities, misuses them all and is basically deceitful. But the ending was an unexpected surprise, although as far fetched as the rest of the book.
The writing is not unique or original; every phrase felt recycled from a hundred other books. Period jargon seemed forced, with too much “whilst” for “while”, that sort of thing. I love historical novels but this one was a miss for me.
Being overly fond of literature regarding historical London, this book would naturally attract my interest. Decent writing but the heroine was not to my liking. The story also seemed to drag on a bit. The title was also misleading.
Started out interesting but ended up so very predictable. Maggie was not my type of character. All she had been through could of least given her some backbone.
I felt this novel tried too hard to cover all of the issues of this period and therefore it appeared too contrived. The characters were not fully developed but were the framework to hang on examples of the social structure and historical events (the sinking of the Titanic,poverty,baby farming etc) of the time. It is better read as a potted 'history'.
I was very unsure about reading it. It looked interesting, but the "look inside" seemed very simplistic, and indeed it seemed a bit trite for the first few chapters. Then it began to get better and better and by the last half it became wonderful. It was about the life of a very impoverished girl in 1800's England, very Dickens-like literature. I did not expect suspense, but WOW, the suspense cam hurtling in, and more than any other book I've read, the reader cannot help but go half-crazy waiting to find out the ending. Please, Ms. Acheson, give us more fiction!
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