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Thursday, April 4, 2024
Book Review: The Reversible Mask
The Reversible Mask by Loretta Goldberg Genre: Historical Fiction / Spy ISBN: 9788494853951 Print Length: 542 pages Reviewed by Toni Woodruff Loretta Goldberg's debut, The Reversible Mask, follows Sir Edward Latham, a C…
Loretta Goldberg's debut, The Reversible Mask, follows Sir Edward Latham, a Catholic aristocrat in restless Protestant England, and his search for religious balance.
At the novel's start, Latham hopes for a better balance between his faith and allegiance to the State, but he is disappointed by political hedging, sliding toward heresy. He acts with admirable decisiveness and sacrifice for a young courtier and sets off on a grand adventure as a spy that has him knighted by two queens.
Latham's circumstance drew me into this story. I adored those parts of his struggle still relatable today in their righteous passion. The point can be readily demonstrated with this short quotation from the text, where Frances de Alava, the Spanish Ambassador, is questioning the protagonist:
"What moves you?" [Alava's] black eyes bored into Latham.
Latham tried to explain his philosophy. "Your Excellency, Your Grace, I look first to my soul."
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