A review by zabcia
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston

4.0

83%

Preston's collage-style art combined with writing is such a brilliant and unique way to present historical fiction; it captures the essence of the era in a way that just words (or even film) never could, because it uses actual artefacts of the time period that normally wouldn't be relevant or important enough to include in a story-telling media, but that sheds valuable insight nonetheless.

The ending was a bit abrupt, which was especially surprising because I'd imagine that

Spoiler

a scrapbooking bride would want to include all sorts of wedding and honeymoon memorabilia, rather than just disappear off the face of the planet. Not sure if this was because there just wasn't enough material to use, or if it's intended to indicate that her life changed and she no longer 'needed' the scrapbook or whatever, but either way, it felt oddly sudden.