Family link key to royal exploit
Date of Review:
Feb.27.2011
Published Work:
Reviewer:
Lucy Clark
Source:
The Sunday Telegraph (Australia's largest newspaper)
Jesse has all the hallmarks of a great historical fiction writer, achieving a fine balance of thoroughly researched atmospheric detail and suspenseful story. Added to this is a strong and sympathetic heroin and wonderful, confident writing that pulls you effortlessly into the world of 16th century Scotland...
...Blackadder's greatest achievement comes at the end of the book when she posits the ephemeral nature of humans against a weighty sense of history and an ageless landscape, something she does with incisive grace that truly elevates her story.
In The Raven's Heart, she doesn't hit one wrong note.
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Utterly gripping and completely unputdownable”
—Good Reading Magazine
About Jesse
Yes, Jesse Blackadder really was born with that surname. When she'd finally had enough of people asking if she was related to Rowan Atkinson, she traveled to Scotland to find the origins of her surname and discovered the ruins of Blackadder House on the banks...
Causes Jesse Blackadder Supports
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (Australia)
The Island Institute (Sitka, Alaska)