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Instead, it's a light brush of magic—so light that you might even miss it if you're not looking for it. I have several Alice Hoffman books on my sagging Kindle bookshelves and not sure what made me pick this one next, but it was a perfect read for the moment that I was in.
These books are not doing anything new but you know what you’re getting into when you give them a go. The construction most often was appealing, but like the convoluted plot, seemed to complicate itself unnecessarily. But the happiest time of the year is marred by the news that Rosalind Blanchard’s husband, Piers, is close to death after a shipwreck at sea. The first in a series of six, this book opens with 8 year old Rosalind Carey traipsing down to the beach to watch the smugglers bring their loot ashore.I didn't particularly like any of the characters, nor did I particularly care what happened to them, but still trundled through to the end. The problem is that Lila has a secret she never told her husband, and it's been eating her alive for decades: the secret is that she had a baby girl at age 17 or so, and was forced to give her up for adoption.
Full with an abundance of nature and its relationship to human behavior, a heavy touch of the supernatural and the reading of fortunes through tea leaves, and at its center an amazingly powerful story of the love between a child and its mother and how the lost (death) of a child is a sorrow that a mother never gets over. Lila, a fortune-teller with no interest in the future, has lost her own daughter more than a quarter of a century earlier in New York. Only a closely-guarded secret will convince Rosalind she can trust Piers to protect her family - and her fragile heart. But life has been hard for the Careys as they struggle to keep the roof over their heads and have racked up debts which they cannot pay.Piers has no choice but to ascquiese leaving Rosalind offering them a place at Rockwood until the mess is sorted out.
I might agree with both, and also found it convoluted, messy, and unfocused—a novel where characters thrash without necessarily getting very far, not even in the narrative sense. Wealthy Piers Blanchard arrives at the castle to tell Rosalind that he is the rightful owner and he allows Rosalind and her family to continue living there.I was unable to suspend my disbelief enough for some of the more far-fetched devices, and instead of relating to the characters and pulling for them I found myself rolling my eyes and speed reading. They run away before Rae finishes high school and after five states in seven years, they end up in Southern California. Daisy Belle, a gifted singer from the Tyneside backstreets, is devastated when her baby daughter Rose goes missing. This scene, which gives the book its essential power, is echoed by Rae's pregnancy and impending labor, which is also associated with natural cataclysm, in this case with an earthquake that threatens the city of Los Angeles.
Rosalind is determined to protect her family home, Rookwood Castle even when it seems she and her siblings have lost everything. Rosie has been left to look after her siblings after her father travels to look for rare plants and her mother joins the opera. She keeps thinking back to moments when he was either cruel or showed a glimmer of sweetness or weakness. THERE are moments in ''Fortune's Daughter'' when it is almost a shock to come upon the specific details of everyday life. I wonder how much my response to a book has to do with the moment I pick it up in time and start reading it.Oh, but I do enjoy Hoffman's descriptions of dreams and visions and how our feelings can evoke something tangible and palatable. It's tense always, and the author pulls you deeply into the mind of a sad person (Rae), who you just want to shake out of her fog. when an autopsy was performed the oddest things were found in its stomach: a silk scarf; small bones, which had not yet been identified; blue water the color of sapphires; three gold rings.
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