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 Winter in Madrid - C.J. Sansom
Description: ISBN 0330411985 / Author: C. J. Sansom / Genre: Fiction Newest Review: ... to the average reader. I bought the book because of the suggestion on the cover that if you liked Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Shadow ... more  ... of the Wind) or Sebastian Faulks (I imagine that “Birdsong” and “Charlotte Gray” were in mind), then you would enjoy “Winter In Madrid”. I did enjoy Shadow of the Wind and I am a big fan of Sebastian Faulks, and I did enjoy “Winter In Madrid”. However, this novel comes nowhere near the works of Zafon or Faulks in terms of writing
Given the subject matter and the location, this story was always going to be starkly told but Sansom lacks a spark of vitality to bring the locations alive and the characteristion i...more |
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Winter in Madrid - C.J. Sansom: Where are the adjectives? (940 words)
by fizzywizzy - written on 10.08.07 (Very useful, 265 readings)
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“Winter in Madrid” centres around three British men in Spain in the early part of the Second World War, in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Harry Brett, having been injured at Dunkirk, agrees to go to Spain at the request of the intelligence services that want him to gather information on Sandy Forsyth with whom Brett went to school. Brett is already familiar with Madrid having visited the city twice before; the first time with another old school-friend Bernie Piper and the second time to search for Bernie after he has been reported missing fighting with the International Brigades during the civil war. The novel is essentially a wartime thriller with a ...
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