Stars: 2
Review by: Mandy Apgar
Not to be
nitpicky right off, but this cover is awful. Central character looks
like a bored 16 year old that outfitted herself with poorly fitted cast
off items. The central gist is this: after 20 years
Myrtle ("call me 'Tilly'") Dunnage, accomplished seamstress and
dressmaker trained in high class European houses of fashion, returns to
the backwater Australian town of her birth and her slightly mad and
invalid mother. She had been sent overseas after an instance
involving the death of a classmate - and soon finds out that the town
still thinks she is a freak of sorts for that and the stain of her
illegitimacy, as well as her budding relationship with the town
footballer / rogue of all trades Teddy. Tolerating the increasing
bullying and harassment of the townspeople isn't easy but Tilly has her
mother, Teddy, and the police Sergeant (the latter having his own
fondness for lace and frills) - until things change and Tilly exacts her
own brand of revenge. Honestly, I thought this
could have been done a lot better with the characterization as many
seemed empty. It served as the basis for a recent Kate Winslet movie and
that was "Unforgiven" with a Singer, it is great. This had a few too
many extraneous characters and it seems flat and
shallow, plus there isn't as much play in it. Tilly and her mum aren't
as feisty as they should be and the other characters are too one
dimensional.
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