5/30/2023 0 Comments Heartstone cj sansom summary![]() ![]() Where another novelist might have kept the dreaded Bedlam off-stage, or built a whole gothic novel around its forbidding walls, Sansom takes us inside it to show us the petty internal politics as well as the unhappiness and injustice. ![]() But they do broaden the territory it wanders through. They’re not going to transform the genre either in the ideas it can contain or what kind of writing it can encompass. Sansom’s novels aren’t radical historical crime like, for example, Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, Lawrence Norfolk’s Lempriere’s Dictionary or Iain Pears’ An Instance of the Fingerpost. Luckily for us, they feel as if they’re getting broader rather than simply longer. As with many genre authors, Sansom’s books are growing as he becomes more successful. (Though no doubt Sansom will prove me wrong before long!) Instead,the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake roved over the countryside from London to Portsmouth, trying to keep his servant Barak from being conscripted, poke around into a dubious wardship for the Queen and investigate the crime which consigned an old friend to Bedlam.Īs that summary suggests, there’s plenty going on in Heartstone. Sansom’s talent s would have been wasted if he had attached his Tudor hero to a regiment and sent him yomping off into battle – the results would have been interesting, but rather too sub-Bernard Cornwell. ![]() ![]() “SHARDLAKE GOES TO WAR” declares the cover of Heartstone, the new C.J. ![]()
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