BLINDSPOT By a Gentleman in Exile & a Lady in Disguise

John Lee and Cassandra Campbell are delightful in this witty historical novel, chock full of well-researched and amusing tidbits of life in eighteenth-century Boston. In alternating chapters, we meet Scottish rogue Stewart Jameson, a portrait painter who's run away from his creditors in Edinburgh, and Fanny Easton, a young girl with a sordid past who disguises herself as a boy and becomes Jamie's apprentice. Lee has Jamie's raffish attitude and moral dilemma down pat, and Campbell nicely captures Fanny's predicament as she struggles to remember that she's a boy. Authors Kamensky and Lepore, both historians, offer clever conversations and situations involving politics, growing unrest in the Colonies, slavery, women's rights, romance, and even murder. Lee and Campbell keep things light and entertaining. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine [Published: MAY 2009]