Kate’s 2¢: “Call Upon the Water” by S. K. Tillyard

“Call Upon the Water” by S. K. Tillyard

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   Boris Hiestand did an excellent job of reading this tory for the NLS. I could never have pronounced all the Dutch streets, towns, and areas as well as he did.

   While the Engineer Jan Brunt’s career building dikes and channels to drain water from swamps to make tillable soil in Nieuw Amsterdam (soon to become New York) is successful, Eliza, the wild woman from the fen in the old world, soaked up his map skills and his heart, she is highly successful in Virginia.

   In many ways, this story is complicated, difficult to understand,  and the ending is an uncomfortable cliff-hanger.

From the WEB:

Stella Tillyard’s latest novel is Call Upon the Water (published in the UK under the title The Great Lev. Stella Tillyard  (born 1957) is a British novelist and historian. She was educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her bestselling book Aristocrats was made into a miniseries for BBC1/Masterpiece Theatre, and sold to over twenty countries.

   Winner of the Meilleur Livre Etranger, the Longman/History Today Prize and the Fawcett Prize, she has taught at Harvard; the University of California, Los Angeles; Birkbeck, London and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, London.[2] She is a visiting professor in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[3]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Call upon the water DB99236

Tillyard, S. K. Reading time: 8 hours, 26 minutes.

Read by Boris Hiestand.

Historical Fiction

Nieuw Amsterdam, 1664. Engineer Jan Brunt has set up a comfortable life for himself when he receives word that disturbs his peace. He remembers moving to England in 1649 and the woman he met there. Jan educates Eliza, but she uses her learning to sabotage him. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018.

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