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L'écriture évocatrice nous transporte en un rien de temps dans les rues de Londres à l'époque victorienne où se côtoient violence et misère, mais aussi dans les belles campagnes anglaises, seul refuge pour notre héroïne dickensienne, seul rempart contre un destin funeste auquel elle tente d'échapper. From her horrific treatment by the charity and it's employees to her employment as a wig maker - we see Lily struggle with her fate. We have tragedy and Marianne facing her life choices as she gets older, that Rose Tremain pulls together in a moving way. The pace of the writing is well set; it’s only a short novel, under 200 pages so character development and descriptions are quickly and effectively established. Her influences include William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1967 novel 100 Years of Solitude and the magical realism style.
More than this, they seemed to announce that the future was entirely theirs and that nobody else would find a proper place in it.Tremain has skilfully created the character and allowed us to share her thoughts and feel her yearnings as we progress through from her teenage years to her marriage. They are told they possess an innate wickedness, ‘a blood-wickedness which could lead then into deep thickets of sin and transgression’. And look at you now: quite upright and well behaved and earning your living, but only because we tamed you and brought you to God. Released into the harsh world of Victorian London, Lily becomes a favoured employee at Belle Prettywood's Wig Emporium, but all the while she is hiding a dreadful secret. You view everything through Marianne’s eyes and her imagination is vivid, fertile and what comes out of her mouth is not necessarily what is in her head!
When Simon moves to Paris after failing his university exams, Marianne is left to endure the “torture” of teenage love and rejection and the wrath of her parents as she struggles to enter the world of “acceptability “As her life moves forward, she is still trapped in the thoughts of what might have been . The book is structured in such a way that it moves from the past to the present, chapter by chapter, but at one seemingly arbitrary point, the author decides to throw in the murder, as if she suspected that our curiosity was waning. Lily is beautifully written, with prose that shimmers and stinks with bosky glory and syrupy effluence.Számomra a regény nagy pozitívuma az, miként a barátság fontos szerepet kap, ami értéket képvisel és megérdemli az értő olvasást. Or she goes back to Rookery Farm where she lives the rest of her life pretty much the same as it used to be - with everyone around and full of love. Marianne Clifford, teenage daughter of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, falls helplessly and absolutely for eighteen-year-old Simon Hurst, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that he will go forward into a successful and monied future, helped on by doting parents. Throughout the book Lily is convinced that the crime she has committed will one day be discovered and that she will be condemned to death as a result.
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