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product_id: 21190584
title: "Crusoe's Daughter"
brand: "jane gardam"
price: "₨11014"
currency: LKR
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reviews_count: 11
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# Crusoe's Daughter

**Brand:** jane gardam
**Price:** ₨11014
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- **What is this?** Crusoe's Daughter by jane gardam
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## Customer Reviews

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    An eccentric yet believable life
  

*by G***H on Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2023*

I loved this book for its eccentricity and for the life described in it. Polly Flint is a year older than the century, and experiences the losses so common in the 20th century. Her parents from illness, her relatives too, her lovers because of war, yet she keeps going, after she gives up the whisky that threatens to derail her. I found all the characters quite convincing, and loved the almost Dickensian fee to the book, which reminded me in some ways of Great Expectations. A satisfying read.

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    Crusoe’s Daughter
  

*by D***G on Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2022*

Jane Gardam evokes an entire world in the heart, mind and soul of Polly Flint, who became Robinson Crusoe’s intellectual daughter in the remote, wind-driven marshes and sand flats of northeastern England, during the years between the First and the Second World War. The reader’s patience with the occasionally slow cadence of this novel is well rewarded eventually, with several surprises.

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    Alone on a literary island
  

*by P***O on Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2010*

Jane Gardam is a scintillating writer. Her characters live their strange lives "as if a skin had been peeled off everything," to borrow an metaphor from Crusoe's Daughter. Every sentence shimmers.Published in 1986, Crusoe's Daughter is not much read today. A sad oversight that would not have surprised the heroine of the novel, Polly Flint. Repeatedly abandoned, she felt as isolated as her literary hero, Robinson Crusoe, for much of her life.We meet Polly in 1904 at age six, left by her sea captain father with two maiden aunts in an improbably Italianate yellow house on a salt marsh in the north of England.One aunt is vague and holy, the other warmhearted and conflicted. There's also an unexplained woman living in the house, penniless and peculiar, who teaches young Polly German and French. Polly completes her education by reading the hundreds of books in the family library.This is very much a book about books, and readers with a literary bent will like this. Others might not. Robinson Crusoe is Polly's bible, illuminating human nature and the cruelties of existence.(I wonder if Gardam was inspired by Betteredge in The Moonstone. Wilkie Collins' quintessential butler also frequently consults Robinson Crusoe for guidance.)We follow Polly's life through two world wars and beyond. Her story mirrors the fate of England, forever changed by war and by progress.Crusoe's Daughter abounds in thwarted romances and heated literary discussions. Loveable and unlovable eccentrics, appealing servants, absurd artists, self-absorbed lovers and Polly herself in love, in despair or in recovery, wend their way through a plot full of perplexities - all ultimately clarified.I wasn't happy with the last chapter, which felt self-conscious and superfluous to me.  I'm simply overlooking it in giving this book five stars.

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