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The Sickly Stuarts
by Frederick Holmes
Product Group: Book
Publisher: The History Press Ltd (2005-05-19)
ISBN: 0750932929
EAN: 9780750932929
Paperback: 292 pages
Edition: New Ed
SKU: B458-1156
Condition: New
Comments: In stock - Immediate despatch from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.
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Customer Reviews
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All over the place
Rating  (2)
Date: 2004-10-18
9 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
I was very disappointed in this book because of the way it was put together, which was somewhat sloppy. The "thread" kept getting lost and then picked up and the structure was all over the place. Also there were an irritatingly large number of repeated chunks, so for example we kept getting told that Charles II "died prematurely from mercury poisoning". The first time, in the chapter devoted to Charles, it was interesting but the same sentence kept getting slotted. There were constant "potted timelines" inserted into the text too, as though the reader may have forgotten that Anne and Mary were sisters since it was last mentioned.The medical content was very interesting and well explained, but the historical content was poor and rambling, and too skimpy by half. The doctor should have worked with a good historian and a proper literary Editor.
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