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Now at twenty-eight and still living in her family home in St Leonards, Violet’s father is beginning to worry that she’ll never settle down and find a husband. Treated with both pity and alarm, she’s fed up of being constantly compared to her beautiful absent mother, yet keenly feels her absence – especially when it comes to advice on finding a career available to women, and to courting an appropriate man. Benjamin Blackthorn immediately strikes her as much more trustworthy than Knight, but he is recovering from a broken leg and insists it was his father, Bernard who was the detective: he now only sells furniture. I am always a sucker for historical mysteries (cozy or otherwise) and I thought this one sounded like it would be something new to check out.
It didn't work quite as well for me but I've got a stinkinng cold which probably impeded my sense of humour. I was lucky to receive an exclusive interactive readalong edition copy, full with QR codes, challenges and topics to discuss whilst reading the book. She’s also rather naive although, to be fair, that does lead to some laugh out loud moments, such as Violet’s errand on behalf of a Mrs Monk, the same lady who corrects a few of Violet’s misapprehensions about ‘marital intimacy’.Those looking for a light-hearted, cosy historical mystery will find they’ve come to the right place with No Life for a Lady.
I liked Violet’s character, she struggles with what society wants her to be and I always love a ‘rule breaker’ so in that I enjoyed Violet’s character. Agnes, one of those unique people, earned her place in the New Mexico Museum as a historian who knew and understand a way of life was changing and would be lost if not captured.Because Violet is a woman who knows her own mind - and her mind is on her mother, who went missing ten years earlier, vanishing from Hastings Pier without a trace. J. Marsh, Judith O'Reilly, Kelly Clayton, Kim Nash, Leah Mercer, Liz Fenwick, Louise Jensen, Louise Mumford, Malcolm Hollingdrake, Marcia Woolf, Mark Stay, Marcie Steele, Natasha Bache, Nick Jackson, Nick Quantrill, Nicky Black, Patricia Gibney, Rachel Sargeant, Rob Parker, Rob Scragg, S. But Violet rails against this, wanting to make her own way in life and pursue a career, rather than making marriage her priority and only goal in life.
It was unclear to me why Violet has waited ten years to make a serious attempt to investigate her mother’s disappearance but once she embarks upon it she has no intention of stopping. What people wore, what was popular at the time, how the streets and towns used to look like, what were people’s main professions, and most importantly, what were the women’s roles in society at this point in time. She’s intelligent, with an inquiring mind and a caustic tongue, and tries valiantly to hold her own against the opposite sex, more often than not succeeding. She respectfully gives homage to her fellow westerners -- be they cattlemen, farmers, natives, outlaws, government people or tourists.We the reader get to experience many things we are familiar with and learn new things that occurred during their time period. Sin embargo, tarde mucho en leerlo porque no me sentía atraída por la historia, no me generaba esas ganas de seguir con el siguiente capítulo. But more than anything else, what Violet wants is to find her mother, Lily, who vanished 10 years ago. This was ploddingly slow-paced and wont to drift off down a completely irrelevant side story, rather than focus on the main plotline.
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