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Cat & Fiddle by Lesley Jørgensen

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April 2013, no. 350

Cat & Fiddle by Lesley Jørgensen

Scribe, $29.99 pb, 512 pp, 9781921844720

Cat & Fiddle by Lesley Jørgensen

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April 2013, no. 350

Oh please, not another novel that draws from Pride and Prejudice! That was my first thought when I read the media release that came with Cat & Fiddle. Last year I had been underwhelmed by both P.D. James’s Death Comes to Pemberley and Jennifer Paynter’s Mary Bennet, a novel about ‘the forgotten sister’, and I was now fervently wishing that all the sisters could be forgotten, at least by novelists. But I soon forgave Lesley Jørgensen. Her début novel, which won the 2011 CAL Scribe Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript, is a warm, funny, good-natured, big-hearted, cross-cultural family saga that many female readers will enjoy. (It is a truth universally acknowledged that men are not much interested in novels about matchmaking, wooing, and marriage, particularly those with pink and gold covers.)

Ruth Starke reviews 'Cat & Fiddle' by Lesley Jørgensen

Cat & Fiddle

by Lesley Jørgensen

Scribe, $29.99 pb, 512 pp, 9781921844720

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