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Aviary Gate

The Aviary Gate: A Novel

By Katie Hickman

Release date: May 27, 2008

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“There was one woman among them who was different from the rest.  I noticed her because she was so fair, She seemed a little older that the others and more richly dressed, with jewels at her ears and on her breast. But it was her skin, white and luminous as the moon.  John took my arm and I heard him say, ‘God help us, Tom. It’s Celia. Celia Lamprey’.” 

It is 1599, in Constantinople, when John Pindar discovers his fiancée, Celia Lamprey, who he thought had drowned at sea, is still alive and has been sold into slavery into the Sultan’s harem.  Can he rescue her from this terrible fate? Meanwhile Celia gets caught up in the attempted murder of the Sultan’s Chief Eunuch and finds herself in even more danger.   The narrator from the present day, Elizabeth, a PhD student working on her thesis, travels to Istanbul to uncover the truth from the past.

Kate Hickman painstakingly reconstructs what women’s lives were like having to endure a life who’s only purpose is to please the Sultan.  The rituals she describes, especially when Celia has to get ready to go see him for the first time, were fascinating.  I was on edge to discover what Celia’s fate would be.   This novel has it all, mystery, love, and adventure, all wrapped up in a historical fiction setting.  I highly recommend opening the Aviary Gate.

Book Room Grade

C

Review Posted: May 20, 2008

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