I hear Winspear is very good. She writes mysteries that take place just post WWI in London. Perry is an uneven but hugely prolific mystery novelist. Some of her stuff is very good and some sucks. I got annoyed by Laurie King - another novelist whose works referenced are probably a mystery series featuring Sherlock Holmes and a female someone or other who comes into his life. The first novel or two in the series aren't too bad but they're not that great.
Don't let a review's bad comparisons keep you from good books, though. ;)
I sort of enjoyed "The Beekeeper's Apprentice" but not enough to check out more of the series. It was definitely better-researched than this though >.>
OK.. good research?... I am *not* an expert in this area by any stretch of the imagination, but a few minutes on Google showed that there were women at Bletchly park, and in fact it was a woman, Mavis Lever, "who made the first break into the Italian naval traffic. She solved the signals revealing the Italian Navy’s operational plans before the Battle of Cape Matapan in 1941, leading to a British victory."
From wiki, so if I were actually writing a story on this I would confirm from another source, but enough say "She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, but her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street." is a pile of pish.
If she were that good, she'd have been working with Turing et al.
Wow. I'm not a fan of book burning, but I'm willing to change my mind for this book just for the Alan Turing name-drop contrasted to the casual acceptance of the 1940s gay character alone.
And the tea/coffee thing? Obviously Ms. MacNeal never watched As TIme Goes By where they are always dragging the French press out at the end of the episode.
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Don't let a review's bad comparisons keep you from good books, though. ;)
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From wiki, so if I were actually writing a story on this I would confirm from another source, but enough say "She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, but her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street." is a pile of pish.
If she were that good, she'd have been working with Turing et al.
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And the tea/coffee thing? Obviously Ms. MacNeal never watched As TIme Goes By where they are always dragging the French press out at the end of the episode.
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