![]() ![]() When I realized what she’d accomplished, I was awestruck-seamless shifts without any awareness on the reader’s part, with no sense of disorientation. ![]() I grabbed the book and scanned the scenes I’d read. I was stirring something when it dawned on me, as my thinking shifted from reader to writer/analytical mode, that I couldn’t identify who was telling the novel. When I read Penman’s first novel The Sunne in Splendour, I remember being forced to put it down in order to cook dinner. The ordinary writer with many shifting points of view will be told the novel suffers from confusing “head-hopping.” Somehow Penman can glide her reader from one character’s viewpoint to another without any hitches even within one scene. Her epic arcs of history require contributions from a wide range of narrators. The third bit of alchemy is the most impressive to me. ![]()
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