Recently jilted by his fiancée, Paul Gascoyne takes a job as a tutor to the patients at the Trudeau Sanatorium in upstate New York. he finds himself drawn to Sarah Ballard, a beautiful but enigmatic young woman, traumatized by her past aboard the ill-fated Lusitania. To rouse her out of her gloom, Paul encourages her to write a memoir. “Bad Juliet” tells what happened……enjoy.
Set in a sanitarium among the awe-inspiring lakes and forests of upstate New York, this powerful and engrossing tale of a famous Broadway playwright, a struggling poet and a beautiful woman suffering from tuberculosis which both men love held me in its grip from the opening chapter.
The masterful prose of Giles Blunt, a writer at the top of his game, captures the world of an early twentieth century sanitorium beautifully. His tantalizing narrative is magic and reveals tragedy, lies, and passionate love among characters who are much more complicated than they seem at first glance. This compelling journey filled with twists that occurs when obsessive love sets itself inside one’s mind is well paced and well done.
A side note:
Mr. Blunt after learning the remarkable history of Saranac Lake and the pioneering sanitarium that put it on the world map a hundred years ago, took a new direction for his fiction and wanted to tell the most compelling story. Mr. Blunt you did it. Sarah Ballard, the “Bad Juliet” won my heart also.
I received this ARC from Dundurn Press via Netgalley for my thoughts: this is the way I see it
Set in a sanitarium among the awe-inspiring lakes and forests of upstate New York, this powerful and engrossing tale of a famous Broadway playwright, a struggling poet and a beautiful woman suffering from tuberculosis which both men love held me in its grip from the opening chapter.
The masterful prose of Giles Blunt, a writer at the top of his game, captures the world of an early twentieth century sanitorium beautifully. His tantalizing narrative is magic and reveals tragedy, lies, and passionate love among characters who are much more complicated than they seem at first glance. This compelling journey filled with twists that occurs when obsessive love sets itself inside one’s mind is well paced and well done.
A side note:
Mr. Blunt after learning the remarkable history of Saranac Lake and the pioneering sanitarium that put it on the world map a hundred years ago, took a new direction for his fiction and wanted to tell the most compelling story. Mr. Blunt you did it. Sarah Ballard, the “Bad Juliet” won my heart also.
I received this ARC from Dundurn Press via Netgalley for my thoughts: this is the way I see it
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