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Dreaming in Color
From a veteran writer of women's fiction, whose loyal fans have already bought more than six million copies of her books, comes the moving and deeply satisfying story of three remarkable women - one physically abused, one depressed by age and infirmity, one temporarily derailed from life's purpose - who meet and are profoundly changed. When Bobby Salton runs away from her...more
Hardcover, 401 pages
Published
July 1st 1993
by Doubleday
(first published January 1st 1993)
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This was an intriguing read! Starkly honest in the descriptions of 'wife battering'.
From back cover:
"Bobby Salton is a woman on the run. With her six-year-old daughter, she finds refuge in a rambling house on the Connecticut shore.
Hired as a live-in companion to Alma Ogilvie, Bobby helps the retired headmistress regain her independence. But Bobby's battered appearance also has a startling effect, especially on Eva Rule, Alma's niece, a successful author.
Three very different women grapple with dr...more
From back cover:
"Bobby Salton is a woman on the run. With her six-year-old daughter, she finds refuge in a rambling house on the Connecticut shore.
Hired as a live-in companion to Alma Ogilvie, Bobby helps the retired headmistress regain her independence. But Bobby's battered appearance also has a startling effect, especially on Eva Rule, Alma's niece, a successful author.
Three very different women grapple with dr...more
Sep 23, 2011
Carlene Doan
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone
Recommended to Carlene by:
Nancy Smith
Called out emotions and empathy for the characters. Makes you look at others and their life experiences. Althouh it is fiction a lot of these experiences probably occur more often in life than we would like to think. Makes you more aware of the trials and tribulations that a lot of people you see on the street every day.
Much repetition in the story line. The book is from the point of view of several characters. One character is just plain boring. The book would have been better off without her and lost none of its impact.
CVA is my favorite author.....her characters are intensely real, and are always striving to learn and grow. I find a bit of myself in every one of her characters.
Great book, you can tell the author has lived thru some of her own horrors of abuse. She also added material in the back of the book in case someone you know is in an abusive relationship...excellent read...
cools in a non-porn kinda way not very individual or stimulating but worth a whack anyway
I did enjoy this book very much. Ke
Really liked the characters.
I loved this book - couldn't put it down. Deals with severe abuse.
Back Cover Blurb:
Three women - one in flight from a bad marriage, one depressed by age and illness, one without a purpose in life - meet along the shores of Connecticut and form a tenuous bond that is soon put to the test.
Back Cover Blurb:
Three women - one in flight from a bad marriage, one depressed by age and illness, one without a purpose in life - meet along the shores of Connecticut and form a tenuous bond that is soon put to the test.
So far so good. A little dark but an interesting take on how a family can be formed through strangers. It is set in CT too.
Images of the mental pictures created while reading this book have remained with me for a long time...
fairly predictable
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Charlotte Vale-Allen was born in Toronto and lived in England from 1961 to 1964 where she worked as a television actress and singer. She returned to Toronto briefly, performing as a singer and in cabaret revues until she emigrated to the United States in 1966.
Shortly after her marriage to Walter Allen in 1970 she began writing and sold her first novel Love Life in 1974. Prior to this book's public...more
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Shortly after her marriage to Walter Allen in 1970 she began writing and sold her first novel Love Life in 1974. Prior to this book's public...more
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