Set in Dublin during the 1916 rebellion, this novel tells of a beauty trapped in a post office seized by rebels. This tale celebrates the...more
Set in Dublin during the 1916 rebellion, this novel tells of a beauty trapped in a post office seized by rebels. This tale celebrates the imagination’s power to transmute crude sensationalism into pure pleasure. less
As a send-up of the notoriously improbably bodice-ripper genre, it would undoubtedly earn five stars, but as a novel, it begins to waver during the fellatio scene, and never quite returns to true after. In my opinion, that is.