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Clever title, clever play on words, when you find out exactly what was caught. Well written, and covers an aspect of American history shrouded in centuries of cleaning up the revolutionary history of the USA. Very well written, the characters are 3 dimensional, and although it is an adventure story, it is all very believable. I would want to be a friend of Makepeace Hedley. She is modern, but not glaringly anachronistic.


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A Catch of Consequence Makepeace Hedley Diana Norman Books Reviews

After a slow start, I suppose I got interested in Makepeace and her blended family of brother, rescued Huron, and Betty and her son, but the slow start did have me skipping ahead and coming back to the narrative, which is an unfortunate way to read a book. I also found the different dialects and "accents" as transcribed to be a little painful to unravel in my head. Still, the novel is well-plotted and the characters are fairly fully drawn, which is always nice. I adored Ariana Franklin's books, so I'll give the next Makepeace adventure a try, as well.
This is a book by Diana Norman, who also wrote under the name of Ariana Franklin for her very popular "Mistress of the Art of Death" series. I came to this book after loving the other series, which dealt with an independent woman in England in the 1100's. The current book, A Catch of Consequence, also deals with a very independent woman, but this one is against the background of the American Revolution and takes place in America and England. The author captures the ambiance of the times in a way that few other authors I've read ever succeed in doing. I recommend it highly.
Diana Norman is a gifted writer. She draws characters quickly and beautifully, and puts them in fascinating situations. This is the story of Makepeace Burke, a tough entrepreneurial single spinster (aged 26!) in colonial Boston. One day, as she is returning from clearing the lobster traps, she sees something in the water; when she realizes it is a man, and alive at that, she decides to reel him in, despite the fact that it could be the Sons of Liberty who have put him in the drink. Indeed, this one action changes her life forever, and affects every aspect of her life from then on.

The action takes place primarily in Boston and England, with a cast full of interesting characters. There are some improbable situations, and our protagonist is not always likable or easily understood, but I would not hesitate to recommend this to anyone interested in historical fiction, character-driven stories or women's lit. I will definitely buy others in the series.
I first started this book with little knowledge of the plot. I knew the basics, a puritan fished a noble out of the water and then there's marriage and all that good stuff. That would be a good premise for a novel, right? Well. Unfortunately, that's the premise for the first third of this novel. Really this is a bit like an English, girls version of "The Count of Monte Cristo".

Makepeace Burke does marry the noble she fished out of the Boston harbor, and she does head to England with him, causing a clash of class and culture. But her husband, Phillip, came to America in the first place to get a divorce from his cheating wife (which in England would have required an act of parliament) and his first wife isn't so eager to just make way for the new one...sparking the conflict that leads this book.

Revenge, class, suitability and the ability to be a good person no matter what life deals you is what this book is about. It is funny, charming, heartbreaking, romantic and very, very good. If you like historical fiction you'll like this book.
---Had so enjoyed reading Diana Norman's 3 novel series about "a mistress of the art of death" set in 12th century England (written under the name Ariana Franklin) that I was delighted to discover this series.
While I do understand some of the criticism about slow starting and a not too likable heroine, for those of us who love historical novels, these are still a treat. What struck my fancy particularly is that Norman begins writing about an 18th century American---very rough around the edges, but possessing many of the qualities that are positive about us---then took us back to England with all the drama of dropping that character smack into what America was rebelling against. It's a balanced portrait, since Makepeace Burke, the Sons of Liberty, and the Brits are not without glaring, very human faults as well as endowed with what is best in both cultures.
Once I was accustomed to Norman's style and the migration to England, the portrait of Hogarthian England was fascinating---scenes from TOM JONES kept popping up in my head.
I'm looking forward to TAKING LIBERTIES from Norman next.
This is a story with a great central character, set in a truly critical point of historical change, and with unexpected turns throughout the story. I am not an enormous fan of romance as a genre, nor historical fiction in general. But while I have to characterize this book as both, it is also an excellently done story. The personal, human drama is always gripping.

The central character, Makepeace (an ironic misnomer), is not at all the average of her time and place, but is believable and amusing, even though the reader might want to shake her once in a while...
I found this book after realizing that Ariana Franklin (author of the EXCELLENT Mistress of the Art of Death series) was Diana Norman, and is now dead. (Alas!)Her voice is the same. I flew through this book, and immediately went looking for the others in the series.

Unlike so many history writers, Norman takes no sides; neither the British nor the colonists are her heroes. Rather, she shows how fanaticism can be evil from either side of a question, and how the real heroes are those who reach out on a personal, human level. A refreshing message.
Clever title, clever play on words, when you find out exactly what was caught. Well written, and covers an aspect of American history shrouded in centuries of cleaning up the revolutionary history of the USA. Very well written, the characters are 3 dimensional, and although it is an adventure story, it is all very believable. I would want to be a friend of Makepeace Hedley. She is modern, but not glaringly anachronistic.