A review by tessyoung
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine

3.0

My first Barbara Vine and my First Audible. Both get the thumbs up. The book is well plotted, really nicely paced, well written and well read. The characters come across really well and this is as much the prose as the delivery. The book tells a story that spans generations and pays close attention to the social mores of the varying time periods, grounding the narrative nicely. There are many strands to the plot but there remains a clarity that respects the reader in terms of not pulling rabbits out of hats, but instead you may guess where stages of the story are going just before they arrive there, but only just. I would invest in reading a Barbara Vine after this.