Book description
Fayne, a vast moated castle, lies to the misty southern border of Scotland, ruled by the Lord Henry Bell, Seventeenth Baron of the DC de Fayne, Peer of Her Majesty's Realm of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The mysterious Lord Bell keeps to his rooms by day,…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Fayne as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Ann-Marie MacDonald is one of North America's finest authors. Her remarkable research into the lives of a family living on the Fayne estate, straddling the border of Scotland and England in the late 1800s, will leave you in awe. This novel is a masterful blend of Victorian history, medicine, social barriers, and humor that will make you laugh out loud while keeping you captivated through 850 pages of unexpected twists and turns.
This one was recommended to me by a friend (who is also one of our local library’s staff) whose opinion I trust.
But I didn’t get around to picking it up (not an easy task, since it runs to over 700 pages) until I went to the laundromat and discovered Fayne lurking on the shelves of giveaway books (okay, it’s too hefty to actually lurk). We ignore such signs at our peril.
It proved, for a change, to be exactly the sort of book I tend to like: one that draws you inexorably into another world—in this case, Victorian England/Scotland—one…
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