I finished reading this book quite some time ago...but I just wanted to pass word along.
This book isn't classified as British Literature, but the subject matter is very much British...so it counts! Interred with their Bones is a novel based on the works of Shakespeare, specifically Hamlet. The main character is taken on a wurl-wind trip across the American West to find out the "true Shakespeare." What I love about this book is that the author, Jennifer Lee Carrell, doesn't really provide the answer to the question she poses to the characters. Was Shakespeare a single man or a group of people? I honestly don't know which is true...the "facts" they explore in this novel are pretty sound. ( I used quotation marks because I don't really know if they are facts that are researched, or made up...I didn't research this topic.) The pace of the novel never drags...I didn't want to put the book down! I liked how the murders in the book were based on character deaths that Shakespeare wrote...an intellectual criminal is always interesting to follow, though usually deadly!
The ending of the novel leaves the author room for a sequal...I don't neccessarily know if I want another one, but would most likely read it anyway. Carrell takes the reader through centuries of lore and history. As I read it I found a lot of similarities to Dan Brown's novels, which may add to why I enjoyed reading this novel! That's all for now! Soon I will have to come up with a personal sign off...for now I leave you with the farewell found in Cry! the Beloved Country.
Go well.
