Goshh, I feel so giddy after finishing this one. My heart has seen so many shades I didn’t think it probably would. I simply came for a lesbian love story, and it had it in its glory, and then some more. There were some parts that felt a bit sluggish, so I had to wait a month to complete it, but then when I resumed, I just couldn’t stop myself.
What I really loved about this book is how, at any point, I could never predict how things were going to proceed. Everything was so unexpected and, at times, kind of bizarre. But it's only because of this I felt so many different emotions throughout it all. When I first met Nancy (the main character), I could’ve never predicted the journey her life was going to take. Now, when I look back at how she was in the beginning—a shy, simple, normal girl tending to her parents’ oyster restaurant—I just can’t believe she is the same Nancy I read about on the last page. She had a classic rags-to-riches story… then back to rags… or even worse than that. Yet she figured her way through it all and, well, eventually found pleasure and joy for herself.
Another good part was that her story wasn't just based on one class, which I probably thought it would be. Through Nancy, we got to experience life, living standards, and the motivations of different sections of society (even the ones on extreme ends) back in the 19th century Britain, because boy, did she really live it all.
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