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Bookpossum · 09-13-2014, 04:09 AM

Mary Anne and The Glass Blowers are non-fiction to the extent that they are about real people. Mary Anne was one of her ancestors and was the mistress of the Duke of York (who had 10,000 men etc). A very interesting woman! The other book is about some of her French ancestors during the time of the French Revolution. So you might want to leave those two until you have read her fiction. The King's General is also about a real person, but is fiction.

I agree with others: Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, her short stories which I think are very good and rather nasty, and I would add The Flight of the Falcon and The House on the Strand. These last two are some of her last books, and I remember them as being particularly good.

09-13-2014, 04:09 AM	#7
Bookpossum Snoozing in the sun Posts: 10,146 Karma: 115423645 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: iPad Mini, Kobo Touch	Mary Anne and The Glass Blowers are non-fiction to the extent that they are about real people. Mary Anne was one of her ancestors and was the mistress of the Duke of York (who had 10,000 men etc). A very interesting woman! The other book is about some of her French ancestors during the time of the French Revolution. So you might want to leave those two until you have read her fiction. The King's General is also about a real person, but is fiction. I agree with others: Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, her short stories which I think are very good and rather nasty, and I would add The Flight of the Falcon and The House on the Strand. These last two are some of her last books, and I remember them as being particularly good.