![]() ![]() There is the meek and inexperienced dairymaid Louise who leaves the wholesome farmlands to become a lady’s maid to a young beauty in the port city of Harwich. Where Fingersmith was a dip into the world of the bibliophile, She Rises is a nautical adventure that keeps the reader out at sea a little too long. She Rises is an obvious inheritor of the kind of historical revisionism that Sarah Waters made popular with her Booker shortlisted novels T ipping The Velvet and Fingersmith. Which is not to say that this is an easy read. ![]() It is when the dust settles that the reader can pick his or her way through and understand that Worsley set out not so much to create, as to churn and produce something new. She Rises is a house of cards based on opposites that comes crashing down unexpectedly. How much are things defined by their opposites? Land and sea, freedom and bondage, man and woman, mistress and maid, spinster and debutante, Kate Worsley sets up polarities with impressive strokes in her stunning debut novel set in England in the 1700s. ![]()
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