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Peter Campbell, 5 January 1989
The Letter of Marque
by Patrick O’Brian.
Collins, 284 pp., £10.95, August 1988,9780241125434 Show More
by Patrick O’Brian.
Collins, 284 pp., £10.95, August 1988,
“... strange loves, conflicts and rages seem native to the realistic novel. One is also grateful for Jill Eisenstadt’s more straightforward ability to use smart writing to make a teen plot seem a true account of the place she grew up in. Patrick O’Brian’s stories of Napoleonic sea war have a vivacity which Hugh Thomas’s more fitfully imaginative ... ”
