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The Schoolmaster's Daughter: A Novel of the American Revolution. Pegasus. Nov. 2011. c.400p. ISBN 9781605982526. $25.95. F
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Smolens's (The Anarchist) latest novel opens in Boston in April of 1775. Abigail Lovell, the daughter of the Boston Latin School headmaster (a loyal subject of George III), is spying with her two brothers for the American cause. Abigail's willingness to take risks leads her into danger when she is falsely accused of murdering a British sergeant then later when she helps her brother sabotage the British artillery before the Battle of Bunker Hill.
VERDICT Despite the inclusion of famous historic figures and several of the major battles of the American Revolution, Smolens's plot and characters remain uninvolving. A tepid love triangle among Abigail, a British colonel, and a young American doctor adds little to the story and ends abruptly. Readers are advised to look elsewhere.
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