Jenny Carroll

Too slow, way too slow. I persevered as it was highly recommended to me, but the plot moved at a glacial pace until just before the end. I found the characters were a little stereotypical and couldn’t really feel sympathetic to most of them. The town doctor, Jack Troy, is a noble but aloof and sad figure. His unmarried eldest daughter seems too happy to just stay at home and look after her widowed father. I found the prose was lyrical but it just made the novel too slow.