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|title=She Rises
|author=Kate Worsley
|rating=3
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Imagine, if you can, a lifelike eighteenth-century seafaring epic (something along the lines of Carsten Jensen's [[We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen|We, the Drowned]] or Carol Birch's [[Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch|Jamrach's Menagerie]]) crossed with Sarah Waters's ''Fingersmith''. If you then added in touches of Charles Dickens's ''Bleak House'', plus shades of the rest of the homoerotic Waters oeuvre (especially ''Night Watch'' and ''Tipping the Velvet''), you would just about have Kate Worsley's debut novel, ''She Rises'', in a nutshell.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408835894</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Mistress of the Sea
|summary= Anna Arbuthnot moves to Ridley Hall as governess for Lord and Lady Charles Wilder's granddaughter, Lottie. Lottie's mother died years before and her father Lyndon has just been killed in the Napoleonic Wars. Lady Charles has all but beatified Lyndon as no one could ever be as wonderful, caring or heroic. In fact she only tolerates Lottie because of her family likeness but things are about to change. Lyndon's younger brother, Thomas, returns from the war accompanied by the secrets that stalk him and intentions that will shake Ridley Hall.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780332270</amazonuk>
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