The Capricorn Bracelet, by Rosemary Sutcliff

[sophia_sol]

It's been a while since I've read any Sutcliff, but her prose style is immediately comfortably familiar to me. This book is a series of six linked short stories spanning centuries of Roman Britain, rather than a novel like she usually wrote. I think she does better in novel length, because these stories all felt too slight for me to get much of an attachment to any of the characters - each story featured a new lead character, in a new generation of people living in the area, so there wasn't a lot of space to develop their story. But they were still an interesting read! And it's neat to see the progression over time of the situation in Roman Britain like this, in a way that makes the changes feel real and lived-in.

Comments

[katherine]

I liked this one too, although I was primed to having got hold of it through interlibrary loan!

[sophia_sol]

nice! :)