Tracy Chevalier's newest novel is delightfully evocative of John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman: the brimming limestone cliffs of Lyme Regis, the stuffy countryside & countrymen about & within it, & - perhaps best of all - women behaving badly. As in, behaving in a manner in which a lady is not to behave; namely engaging in such activities know not to behoove the fairer sex. Dear me, how could they? In the same vein as Chevalier's previous novels, Remarkable Creatures weaves fiction & reality in an engaging & feministic narrative that carries through to a nice, tidy end.
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