Widows Tale

The Widow's Tale

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    • In the spring of , widow Cristiana Helyngton has been kidnapped, defamed, and imprisoned in a nunnery - as her late husband's duplicitous relatives seek to obtain control over her lands and children. To secure her freedom and save her daughters, Cristiana must use a secret entrusted to her by her husband as he was dying - a secret that could bring down those lords nearest the king and destroy those most dear to her.

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    Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide's nunnery must decide where her loyalties lies - to the crown, to the truth, or to England's peace. And whatever she chooses, in the end her help may be of little use against the ruthless men threatened by the secret on which all of Cristiana's hopes depend Her fictitious characters are also well-defined, and Cristiana will break the reader's heart. Read more Read less. Add all three to Cart Add all three to List.

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    The Widow's Tale by Mick Jackson: review

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    BBC One - The Widow's Tale

    With the greatest respect, I would rather chew off my own arm. Being surrounded by all that crochet and bric-a-brac. Not to mention the rest of the planet's waifs and strays. It is this voice that has to carry a short novel in which there are few twists and no narrative tricks.

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    There is little dialogue, just internal monologue, and the book's success as a novel stands or falls by whether the widow convinces us, whether we are motivated to stick close and see her through. Jackson takes his spiky creation to be subversive, transgressive, a hard-drinking, hard-swearing relict set to shock us out of our stereotypes: In fact, the widow is a stereotype herself.

    She doesn't like wayside shrines with cellophane bouquets. She thinks the public overdid it in their mourning for Princess Di. She doesn't think the English know how to wait at table, or be waited on, and when she visits the Roman Catholic shrine outside Walsingham she is amazed by the pious antics but envies the true believers. All her opinions are weekend-supplement truisms, and her voice itself is uneven, as if she is in the habit of casting aside her Dr Johnson for an hour or two with trash TV.

    On her first day in Norfolk, before she got the key to her cottage, "I'd snuck out onto the saltmarshes to relieve myself". This is the free spirit who cuts her cottage's TV cable with a pair of scissors; so it's a puzzle where she gets her idiom. It is no surprise to find that the year marriage wasn't perfect.

    The widow is irritated by the reflex praise of her circle of acquaintances for a dead man who now seems dull and obtuse.

    The Grass Widow's Tale

    Some years back, she had an affair. Paul was younger, and they met on a residential course in Devon; the furnishings of this novel are generic, as if they had been ordered from a mail-order catalogue of liberal taste. A complete edition of John James Audubon's world famous The Birds of America, bound in linen and beautifully presented in a special slipcase.

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