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Daughters of Babylon Paperback – July 10, 2014

by Elaine Stirling (Author)

3.7 39 ratings

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“Sometimes, the only way to the future is through the present of someone else’s past.”

Confused? So is Silvina Kestral when she agrees to clear out the house of an eccentric dead actress amidst the ruins of a medieval priory in the French Pyrenees. Speaking of confusion, who were the Daughters of Babylon, and what does a tall dark stranger in the attic have to do with Creation’s mightiest secrets? To find out, you’d have to ask either a Mexican cane cutter with a party of witches and a sense of rhyme, or a 19-year-old, badly married queen named Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Problem is, where to start? And once started, what if the task never, ever ends…

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300 pages
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English
Publication date

July 10, 2014
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6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
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1909636088
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978-1909636088
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We live our lives in chapters, Joseph Campbell used to say, and not until later decades do we see the curving arc, how all that seemed random and disjointed slowly comes together to support a premise or a common theme. For a long, long time, we don't know who holds or turns the kaleidoscope. I've been a "professional" writer since 1985, by virtue of having sold my first of ten Harlequin romances in that year. Five of those were romantic suspense because I love a good mystery as much as a good love story. In subsequent years, while attempting to write a godawfully serious and tragic historical nonentity, I sold short fiction to Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Fantasy and Science Fiction. To keep food on the table, I became a corporate communication consultant and ended up quite enjoying that too. My first nonfiction book, The Corporate Storyteller: A Writing Manual & Style Guide for the Brave New Business Leader, was published in 2009. A friend in Tokyo told me a great story about a woman reading my book in a stall in the ladies' rest room and laughing her head off. She emerged to find Japanese women staring at her, horrified. The world learns better with humour, I believe.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Greyhart Press (July 10, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1909636088
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1909636088
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches

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Amanda Varona

I love this fast-paced and well-told story that weaves its way ...

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2014

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I love this fast-paced and well-told story that travels through centuries and thousands of miles, and it all comes together beautifully. Elaine Stirling brings to vivid life Eleanor of Aquitaine, who, I am a little embarrassed to say, I knew nothing about, embarrassed because she's a fascinating and important historical figure and, apparently, an important patron of poets and writers, so thank you, dear author, for enlightening me, and I look forward to learning more about her. I enjoyed all the characters, with Eleanor being my favorite, and I enjoyed the romance, too.

Stirling's turn of a phrase tickles me. There were so many favorites along the way that I highlighted them to enjoy them again. Some of the scenes had me gasping, some smiling, and always eager to know what is coming next. I love the unexpected twists, even at the very end. In short: Thoroughly enjoyable! I look forward to her next novel, hopefully a historical one, with plenty of poetry sprinkled in. This feels like a true labor of love, and even the book cover is lovely and fitting.

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Joan A. Adamak

Confusion of Story Lines

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2015

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DAUGHTERS OF BABYLON
By Elaine Sterling
3 stars
This was a difficult book for me to read. The author states at the end she wanted to provide a different insight into and about Eleanor of Acquitaine, one of the most famous women of Europe during the middle ages. I have read several novels about her and she is totally fascinating. However, I would have enjoyed the story much more if she had stuck to just Eleanor and her life experiences. Instead she threw in two other story lines, which I couldn’t seem to connect to Eleanor, and the first chapters were full of statements or words in either French or Spanish, which meant nothing to me or anyone who doesn’t know those languages. This then kept me from understanding much of the intent of the story. On top of that the author is enthralled with poetry, and for those of us who do not enjoy poetry, it did not enhance the story. At the end the author explains how long it took her to write this book and then adds several pages of poetry by other authors, which for people who are interested in history would become more prominent by reading such excerpts, which would enhance this particular book.
One could call it a historical novel, which it is where it pertains to Eleanor. As far as the book pertains to Eleanor, I would give it four stars or five stars, but the large foreign language excerpts with no translations and then the insertion of two other story lines with little tie into Eleanor’s life, ruined the book for me. But it is well written, obviously by a well-educated author and I would prefer to give it a higher rating, but I did not enjoy any of the book other than the parts relative to Eleanor and Acquitaine.
I was given a complimentary e-book copy for an honest review.

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2015

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This is a difficult book to review and I would have given it 5 stars but am holding the author to the standard she established at the very beginning and that is breathtakingly high. Parts of it are brilliant, the writing is mostly superb, and I suspect it was an exceedingly difficult book to write. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but think a very literal reader would have difficulty following it and certainly would miss the many nuances. The level of writing at the very beginning was astonishing because of the way words were used - as I said, it took my breath away. In a good way. Throughout there were clever subtle references that I found entertaining. Also, there was humor. I will read other writing by this author.

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LF

Grabbed, held and expanded this reader

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2014

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This book compels so thoroughly it still sits atop my reading stack, even after reading it twice. It drew me in insisting attention be paid to the story's well-honed historical, geographic, and relational details, as well as to a broader perspective of time. All these elements serve to lasso my various attention-wandering proclivities (typical of any voracious reader) into a united, receptive synchronization. I read the book aloud the second time through, delighting in nuances I'd missed when first speeding down the story’s highway.

Stirling’s trinity of story-lines dance and weave between time and place, people and relationship, light and dark, words and outcomes, until every last thread is woven into perfection. I found the book played a harmonization of story-lines that together describe a truth held in the power of emotion, thought and word, to create experience. Cerebrally I’m aware Stirling wrote a story to entertain, yet for me, her book and its mystery revealed provided an expanded perspective of how to create my own reality.

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J. Stefan

hard to describe...

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2015

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Really this is a 3.5......because it ended well. First this story is a head game and takes a serious amount of concentration to keep all the layers and players straight. I almost put it down in the third chapter but I liked one of the characters enough to keep going just a little farther and the story finally hooked me. I will say this--in the beginning you feel like you are being thrown here and there and randomly landing in a different time with different players....you are! Just learn to go with it and it gets a little less like a mess and feels more like building blocks. I'm not sure I could read more stories like this because even though I like a good head game and a good mystery this one was so esoteric it felt disconnected from reality. Stream of consciousness thinking reigns in many of the characters and that can be very difficult to sink your teeth into, at least for me. I can't say I enjoyed reading all of the book but I did come to understand the concepts and the motivations of all involved . Still, for me the story lacked a method of authenticity that I can't pin down.

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