Star-Crossed

by Rosalind Ashe

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553134809
• ISBN13: 9780553134803
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Ordinary people caught in extraordinary situation

It is extremely difficult to give a synopsis of this novel without giving away major spoilers. It opens in the late 1930's with the story of Lucy, a young woman who has a brief love affair with the wrong, very married, man, and falls pregnant. Her straight-laced parents send her from their northern England village to London in order to have the baby in secrecy. Just when Lucy is about to give birth, in the summer of 1939, the story fast-forwards to 1959, and a number of new characters are introduced, who seem to have no connection with anything that's happened prior to this point. Life events involving the newly-introduced characters, such as falling in love; marrying and having children, move forward inevitably and with subtle hints and tense forebodings resulting in a denouement that is horrifying for the ordinary people portrayed in this novel. While STARCROSSED is not perhaps a novel I would want to read again, the tension the author generates, and the horror of the extraordinary fates of these likable, ordinary characters, are worthy of Stephen King.