5/28/2023 0 Comments Christine falls by benjamin black![]() ![]() I loved references to things like Passing Clouds, still available in England when I was a teenager.īanville draws on his own world. John Banville writes beautifully, even as Benjamin Black. There was nothing I did not love about this novel. Perhaps readers more clever will figure it out far sooner than I did. You will discover in the novel that Christine Falls actually has quite an unfortunate life - more than once - which caused me great confusion until the reason was revealed. ![]() Not only was she born, she flourished – at least on the page. For a complete change of scene the writer invited himself to stay with a friend in the countryside near Florence, and ensconced in the tower of her 10th century home “in the pink-tinged light of a cold March morning in Tuscany setting out, or, more prosaically, sitting down, to become someone else”, Christine Falls, was born. ![]()
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