![]() ![]() Although this hardship has quite a different effect on moulding the two of their characters, they both struggle with a passion which they carry as a dark secret: gambling.įor Oscar, this is at once the basis for faith and yet its crisis. ![]() Both lose parents at a young age and both find themselves unacceptable to their surrounding societies. Set in the mid 19th-century, Oscar is born to a fundamentalist minister in rural Cornwall, England, Lucinda to immigrant parents in Australia. ![]() While very beautifully evoking the themes of love and society, this is also a story of something I’m very familiar with: the struggle to overcome our fallen nature while trusting in a God who accepts that we cannot. Carey writes with great insight into the vivid characters he has created and his use of metaphor is always insightful. This was a wonderful book from start to finish. Book #205 Reviewer: Arukiyomi ( first published May 2012) ![]()
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