Has anyone read Anya Seton’s Katherine and if so should I read it do you think? I don’t know why – it’s probably me being a wee bit snobbish book-wise. Back in 1972 this book was wildly popular and I almost never read books at the same time as everybody else is reading them. Of course it could just be that I was put off by yet another Tudor period setting which I hadn’t expected. It isn’t exactly successful although I can imagine that if I had read this book when it was first published in 1972 when I was 13 then I would have probably loved it. In 1968 Celia ends up in a catatonic state and it’s then that the story switches to Tudor times with many of the same characters from 1968. Celia Marsden is a young, rich American who has been married for her money really, her husband Richard’s family has lived in a Sussex manor house, Medfield Place since the Tudor times, and before that they had built a stone keep there in the 1200s. The two periods are 1968 when the book begins but after 80 odd pages the story turns back to Tudor times. Anya Seton‘s note at the beginning of this book states that The theme of this book is reincarnation, an attempt to show the interplay – the law of cause and effect, good and evil – for certain individual souls in two English periods.
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