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I skipped to the end with this one, which I hardly ever do, and I'm glad I did because it was a real let-down. This antique-y, Frenchified take on a similar story to Geoff Ryman's '253' (with a far duller climax) shows a lot of diligent research but also the worst aspects of Donoghue's writing - didactic, overpopulated and overcooked. I've read several of her novels, but DNF'd the last two.