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Title: She Rises

Author: Kate Worsley

Narrator: Clare Corbett, Thomas Judd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-13

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It is 1740 and when Louise Fletcher is offered work as a maid in the bustling port of Harwich she leaps at the chance.

Fifteen-year old Luke is in a Harwich tavern when it is raided by His Majesty's Navy and he is press ganged and sent to sea on board the warship Essex. The worlds they find are more dangerous and more exciting than they could ever have imagined

Members Reviews:

Riveting High Sea Adventure and Romance

"She Rises" is a fast-paced, riveting adventure yarn involving the fates of a brother and sister in English seaports and on the high seas in the 1740s. It's a great combination of romance and gritty realism with a fabulous plot twist and a surprising but fitting conclusion. Worsley creates compelling characters, puts them in precarious situations, and gives them great scenes and dialogue. Her descriptive prose, especially of the sailors' work aboard ship, is riveting. Each chapter includes some dramatic event or revelation that moves the action forward and makes you want to read on to see what happens next. In the author's laser-like focus and storytelling brio, it reminded me a bit of Emma Donoghue'sSlammerkin. Readers who like Sarah Waters' historical fiction should also enjoy it. I found "She Rises" incredibly entertaining and highly recommend it.

Not What They Seem

Kate Worsley's novel, "She Rises," is the story of a time, a place, and characters, none of which are really what they seem to be. From a dirt-poor farming family, Louise Fletcher and Luke Fletcher in different ways disappear from the farm, she to become a lady's maid, he to be Shanghai'd and pressed into service on a sailing warship. These characters are, of course, also revealed in their relationships with their family, fellow workers, and most of all, targeted love objects, in this case persons of the same gender.

Louise works hard to learn to be a lady's maid in an upper class household. While Luke, pressed into service, is sheltered by a great, hulking man, Nick, who with his gangling brute strength protects his young protege. In both cases, man and woman, the Fletchers fell in love with their protectors - loves that are ultimately reciprocated and become physical.

"She Rises" has a complicated plot as the fortunes of all the major players make twists and turns in their social milieu (upper class home and naval warship) but also as their minds and hearts revolve about their changing needs and desires.

As the narrative path of the plot unfolds, we are introduced to wonderfully clear pictures of the 18th century and its upper class denizens and a sailing warship including its various sailors at a time when impressment was not unusual. The novel is especially interesting in that author Worsley presents these unusual characters against the relatively staid 18th Century colonial backdrop.

Although it was very interesting to consider, one finds the premises of the plot difficult to believe - that these relationships could play out on the stage of the time.