The Salt Factory edition by Evie Woolmore Literature Fiction eBooks
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‘I never shoot a man unless there is no other choice.’
The motto of Thelonia Jones, deputy Marshall, makes perfect sense in the silver-mining mountains of Colorado. But back in Victorian England, hoping to settle the debts of her half-brother Cadell, Thelonia finds much that bewilders her. Why has her wealthy stepfather abandoned his mansion to die alone in a rundown cottage by the sea? Who is the strange little girl who brings seagulls and sick people back to life? And why has the owner of the Greatest Freakshow on Earth followed her halfway around the world? For all her ease around matters of life and death, even Thelonia will be surprised by just how high the stakes are about to get. They say the past always catches up with you. For Thelonia Jones, that means literally.
Evie Woolmore is a conjuress of magical realism. Her novels - Equilibrium, Rising Up, The Salt Factory - infuse historical settings with an otherworldly quality. Their evocative atmospheres blur boundaries between the real and the imaginary, or whatever passes for real and imaginary...
The Salt Factory edition by Evie Woolmore Literature Fiction eBooks
"At first I tried to memorise every face, like milestones on the way that could draw me home again...but by the time I set sail from New York, I wished only to shut them out...trying to protect myself from what is still to come." So writes Thelonia Jones, Evie Woolmore's perfectly realized Victorian heroine in her latest historical fiction offering with her signature magic realism tilt. Written in the pulsing rhythms of the sea that so infuse the story-- both the sea of the coastal village village of Lymington, England, and the hidden, musterious, underground sea that is the source of the salt of her brother's factory in the mountains of Colorado, The Salt Factory follows the journey of Thelonia as she valiantly tries to re-pay the debt her brother has incurred. Or is this the journey she is really on? That question strikes at the very heart of Woolmore's novel, keeping both Thelonia and the reader continually off-base as we ride the many sharp twists and steep turns. Thelonia is a fully formed Victorian heroine, perfect in her Englishness, but embodied with a fine American twist-- as well she should be as she is the first female US Deputy Marshall. Ms. Woolmore peoples her creation with vivid characters true to her genre: Mangus Blackstock, the cruel stepfather; Syrus Capshaw the sly villian who holds Thelonia's fate in his hands; and Cadell, the misunderstood half-brother. But pushing beyond these, it is the ethereal characters: Marial the Mermaid of Capshaw's Spectacular Freakshow whose skin has turned silver due to a childhood illness, and of course, the little girl, that give the novel its luminescence and sheen. Evocative, gorgeously written, this haunting tale of discovery will have you madly page turning until the wee hours.Product details
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The Salt Factory edition by Evie Woolmore Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I was looking for a Victorian mystery and this one caught my eye. But that was about it..........just my eye.
I can't say that I liked the mix of super natural with Victorian at least that is what I saw. The repetition of the author really bothered my liking the story more. It's just my opinion.
The line between fantasy and magical realism is not a thin one. Between the two lies a huge gulf filled with literary conventions, belief and, most of all, the difference between suspension of belief and the creation of belief. Evie Woolmore may well disagree but magical realism is about the fantastic seen within the ordinary rather than jostling for room beside it. Marquez, the greatest of all the so-called magical realism novelists, elevated the ordinary into the magical rather than forcing the ordinary to give way to the magical. Woolmore respects that though her brand of magical realism is less flighty than that of Marquez or Borges.
In the Salt Factory, Evie Woolmore deftly teases out the fantastic. It is, perhaps, more mystical than magical but she has a sure grasp of her spirit, never letting it slide into the mundane and facile supernatural. While we might guess where she is going, the trip there is what matters, not the arrival.
It is best that I make clear my interest in writing this review. To say I am writing this review only because I liked the book would be to state only half the truth and since the unspoken half could unfairly damage the credibility of the review, it is best to come clean.
Last year, Evie, as reviewer for Awesome Indies and her own book review blog, Allonym Books, produced a very generous review of one of my books. Now, I detest the practice of cross reviews, where authors make a pact to review each other's books. Readers deserve more honesty and transparency than that. It never occurred to me to to even read one of Evie's books, let alone review it. I rarely write reviews being far too self-centred to think that any books but mine deserve to be reviewed, and far too busy working on new ones to be distracted. Yet, the intelligence and literary grace of Evie's review piqued my curiosity and I found myself buying The Salt Factory.
So, you'll just have to take my word for it that this is not a tit-for-tat thank you, or part of a bargain made with another author. If I was to bargain away my soul, believe me, I would side with Faust and ask for a much higher price than a review. My soul is worth at least the guarantee of a best-seller, most likely several, with an unusually inspiring Muse thrown in for insurance.
This is a well-written book. Its measured prose flows easily and treads confidently between exposition and description. The book unwinds itself around you. We often talk of a book as being a page-turner as if that were some automatic measure of value but it seems to me that the page you can't bear to leave is a better mark of a well-written book. The reader should want to remain with, to to linger over, each page, rather than rush past it to see the next one. And that is the type of book Evie has written; the well-written page-lingerer, like the novels of Henry James.
That is not to say that it plods or is dull. It has a compelling storyline that moves along briskly enough with only one or two brief and barely noticeable quiet spots. And its main protagonist, Thelonia Jones, is an intriguing and unusual creation a English-born, gunslinging US marshall not afraid to be masculine but not compelled to be so. Children and adolescents may well like and need kick-ass heroines but feisty, independent and smart ones like Thelonia serve adults better.
Disconnection and displacement are obviously important and interesting themes to Woolmore for they loom large in the book. In fact, it is a book populated by the disconnected or those connected to the wrong people or places, almost like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that is pulled apart, shuffled and re-assembled. When Woolmore gradually pushes the pieces back together, we realise that the landscape actually hasn't changed at all but that we're just looking at it from a different horizon.
It isn't a deeply profound book but it does't set out to be. It is a reflective, thoughtful, intriguing book. There's a mystery at its heart but it isn't a whodunnit. I'm not even 100% sure there's a defined solution. I know I came to my own, one that satisfied me, but perhaps it isn't the same one as Woolmore intended. It doesn't matter; she only wrote it. I read it. And it worked for me.
"At first I tried to memorise every face, like milestones on the way that could draw me home again...but by the time I set sail from New York, I wished only to shut them out...trying to protect myself from what is still to come." So writes Thelonia Jones, Evie Woolmore's perfectly realized Victorian heroine in her latest historical fiction offering with her signature magic realism tilt. Written in the pulsing rhythms of the sea that so infuse the story-- both the sea of the coastal village village of Lymington, England, and the hidden, musterious, underground sea that is the source of the salt of her brother's factory in the mountains of Colorado, The Salt Factory follows the journey of Thelonia as she valiantly tries to re-pay the debt her brother has incurred. Or is this the journey she is really on? That question strikes at the very heart of Woolmore's novel, keeping both Thelonia and the reader continually off-base as we ride the many sharp twists and steep turns. Thelonia is a fully formed Victorian heroine, perfect in her Englishness, but embodied with a fine American twist-- as well she should be as she is the first female US Deputy Marshall. Ms. Woolmore peoples her creation with vivid characters true to her genre Mangus Blackstock, the cruel stepfather; Syrus Capshaw the sly villian who holds Thelonia's fate in his hands; and Cadell, the misunderstood half-brother. But pushing beyond these, it is the ethereal characters Marial the Mermaid of Capshaw's Spectacular Freakshow whose skin has turned silver due to a childhood illness, and of course, the little girl, that give the novel its luminescence and sheen. Evocative, gorgeously written, this haunting tale of discovery will have you madly page turning until the wee hours.
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