Fran: G is not really for Gholson but Gregson

Again, browsing the library shelves, I pick up a bunch of likely Gs.  The first was Christien Gholson, A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind, which had an entrancing title and a good blurb:

This is the story of A Fish Trapped inside the Wind.
It all begins in a small town in Belgium near the French border on the morning of the festival of St. Woelfred. There are dead fish scattered everywhere seemingly blown in by the wind. The empty quarries of Villon are soon to be used as toxic waste dumps. Are the fish a sign from the saint or a trick played by Contexture, the dance group who once got naked at the Vatican?
The lives of six people who live in the town are about to be changed forever.
A story with magic and fish… and the lost poems of Rimbaud.

I expected to like it more than my other G book.  It turned out to be a little character study, with a lot of fish rotting about town and little resolution, and precious little Rimbaud (as far as I could figure).  Rimbaud once lived in Villon and the lost poems are in their physical pages objects of interest, but there's no quotations from Rimbaud, no interest in the words (unless the references are so oblique that the general populous doesn't get them).  St. Woelfred is also tangential.  Gholson writes well but I found myself reaching the end of the book and wondering "interesting people but so what?".  I don't think that's the reaction you want to have at the end.

So I picked up my other G: Julia Gregson, Band of Angels.  At least I recognized this as a reference to early nursing under Florence Nightengale.  Florence is a tangential character as we follow a Welsh landed-gentry girl who runs away to become a nurse in London and then finds herself in the Crimea with the British wounded.  There's a romance (without explicit scenes, not the interest of the author) that runs through it--her friend from home similarly circuitously ends up in the Crimea with horses he's trained.  On the whole, it was a fairly compelling historicized romance and I enjoyed it a good deal more than the fish.