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The Chinaman's Bastard by Amanda Taylor (view source)
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|title=The Chinaman's Bastard
|sort=The Chinaman's Bastard
|author=Amanda Taylor
|reviewer=Louise Laurie
|buy=Maybe
|borrow=Maybe
|pages=393
|publisher=Vanguard Press
I'd like to thank the author for sending a copy to The Bookbag.
If this book appeals then you might also enjoy [[The Case Book of Victor Frankenstein by Peter AchroydAckroyd]].
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'''Right to Reply'''
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|comment=Dear Louise,
Thank you for reviewing my book The Chinaman’s Bastard so comprehensively.
I think you got off to a bad start. I absolutely agree with you that the back cover blurb isn’t all it should be and the ‘very’ with captivating along with a second ‘very’ in the same paragraph is unforgivable. However, the blurb was written by the publishing house and although I asked them to correct it, it seems once the print run was underway this would prove too costly to rectify.
I am afraid life was hard and grim in Victorian Staithes – every Staithes family during that period lost a man to the sea – and I wasn’t going to pretend that this fishing community was wonderland.
I agree we all need humour to get by and I am sorry ‘Taylors’ courtroom humour failed to hit the mark with Ms Laurie.
Amanda Taylor
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