Mum's Monday: The Sailor’s Ransom by Brian Thompson

When I read the back of this book, the description of the story, I read it twice to get the proper gist of it. The description is very detailed, making it a long and intense paragraph.

When I started reading the book, I did wander where the story was going, but once I got to chapter 7 out of 17, the story became clearer.

Bella Wallis, being a writer, but under the name Henry Ellis Margam, is a good basis to the story, and she gets inspiration from the different experiences throughout.

I would also like to know, where going to find Molly Clunn, a ‘Down on her luck’ performer in music halls, fits into the story of true love, but a father, Sir William Skillane, wanting a different husband, for his daughter, Mary.

We do find out why Molly Clunn is in the story, it turns out, Sir William Skillane is a ‘Slum Landlord’ and Molly was living and died in one of his slums.

It is good, that it is portrayed, that people are looking out for the ones living in slums, even if they were too late for Molly.

In chapter 9, the story comes to life, but Bella has also realised a slip of the tongue, to the wrong person, however, innocent, can cause a problem, a lesson to be learnt there. This chapter left me thinking 2 wrongs don’t make a right.

In chapter 10, it comes to light, that everything in this book, happens for a reason, you just have to persevere, with reading it to find out, what they are, behind what happens. This is a fantastic way to keep you reading this book.

The story becomes clearer still near the end of it and it is good to see everything works out in the end. However, at the very end it is strange to see, even back when this book is set, although it is not all that clear throughout when, progress is frowned upon. This in a form of a new type of pen, with the ink inside it.

It is a good job Bella doesn’t live in the here and now, but pen or no pen I hope the book she was inspired to write does really well.