It comes in a hard slip case (the cover you see above), and I think it would make a beautiful gift or just a great keeper for your bookshelf. The story is told from Evelyn's perspective on one side of the book and as you turn it around, you can read the story from Brendan's perspective on the other side. This is a two sided story printed in an accordion-fold binding. It's as if they are the haunted lovers in the old book itself.I was offered The Thorn and the Blossom by Theodora Goss for review and frankly, besides the fact that this is a story about star-crossed lovers with a mystery, the format really caught my attention. After that first meeting, they don't see each other for years - yet neither ever stops thinking about the other. And when Brendan Thorne hands her a medieval poem called The Book of the Green Knight, he doesn't know that it will shape his future forever. Little does she know, but she is about to meet the love of her life. The Thorn and the Blossom is the story of two star-crossed lovers.Įvelyn Morgan is a young American student studying at Oxford when she walks into Thorne & Son, a bookstore in the Cornish village of Clews.
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