finished reading...

Set in England in 1766, Tom Page as a young stable hand becomes the caretaker of two young elephants. Not much was known about elephants or the care thereof, so Tom is tapped to write a history of elephants.

I liked the atmospheric writing. A sense of 18th Century England. And I liked the relationship Tom builds as the elephant keeper with his charges.

There were some weaknesses in the storytelling--I didn't like that there weren't many secondary characters. Or that they were stereotypical characters. And I really didn't like the ending. As I started reading Part 4, I wondered if my e-book was messed up somehow because it jumped perspective from the 1700s to present-day and a different narrator speculates about the fate of Jenny and Tom. It left me scratching my head.

It's the August book club selection, so I'm interested to hear what everyone else thought of it.