Katherine McMahon’s novel The Rose of Sebastopol [ISBN 978 0 7538 2374 3] is not without its historical interest, but it is rather turgid – and the double flashback narratives get very tedious and don’t really add to the story. I found the characters to be less than absorbing – middle class and spoilt women can come over as really annoying in retrospect.
Katherine McMahon’s novel The Rose of Sebastopol [ISBN 978 0 7538 2374 3] is not without its historical interest, but it is rather turgid – and the double flashback narratives get very tedious and don’t really add to the story. I found the characters to be less than absorbing – middle class and spoilt women can come over as really annoying in retrospect.
Mariella Lingwood grows up close to her cousin Rosa and her sort of cousin Henry whom she becomes engaged to. Henry becomes a doctor and goes to the Crimea, and Rosa follows. Henry becomes ill and Mariella goes to visit him in Italy and finds out he must have been having a lose relationship with Rosa and wants her to find Rosa who has disappeared. Mariella goes to the Crimea herself to find out where she is.
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