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A review by drjoannehill
The Martian Girl: A London Mystery by Andrew Martin
4.0
3 or 4 stars? A story within a story within ... Turn of the Century music hall 'turner' Kate French is researched by a twenty-first century journalist Jean, although details on the archives and searching are a bit scant. Meanwhile Jean is trying to deal with an increasingly weird boyfriend (married to someone else) who we see is clearly a psychopath or paranoid schizophrenic, but Jean doesn't. The stories slowly converge.
I do like time slip or parallel stories but there were times this one fell a bit short. I much preferred the nineteenth century sections to the twenty-first but they were short, missing story development, and there was more emphasis on describing streets and journeys than allowing the characters' stories some space.
I do like time slip or parallel stories but there were times this one fell a bit short. I much preferred the nineteenth century sections to the twenty-first but they were short, missing story development, and there was more emphasis on describing streets and journeys than allowing the characters' stories some space.