After You'd Gone

Aug 02, 2010 Paul rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: whats-all-the-fuss-about, i-don-t-know-why-i-read-this, novels

NOT A REVIEW OF AFTER YOU'D GONE, WHICH WAS OKAY BUT WENT IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER

I realise goodreads is for books but I found a piece of beautiful writing about the vain search for modern romance in a movie called Kissing Jessica Stein. The first part of this movie is all about a thirty-ish woman in New York who can't meet the right guy, fairly usual but quite funny too. Then it takes off in a different direction, which I'll refrain from commenting on or you'll raise your eyebrows, I know y...more NOT A REVIEW OF AFTER YOU'D GONE, WHICH WAS OKAY BUT WENT IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER

I realise goodreads is for books but I found a piece of beautiful writing about the vain search for modern romance in a movie called Kissing Jessica Stein. The first part of this movie is all about a thirty-ish woman in New York who can't meet the right guy, fairly usual but quite funny too. Then it takes off in a different direction, which I'll refrain from commenting on or you'll raise your eyebrows, I know you will. Anyway the dvd contained some deleted scenes, and in those scenes I found this gem.
Jessica our heroine has been seeing a guy for a week or so and he seems okay-ish but fairly aggravating, and by now what she really wants is for him to go far far away, but at that very point he announces that he thinks he's in love with her and that he's never felt so close to another person and that he feels they just click. So this is what Jessica says, and she says it all in a breathless rush at 60 miles an hour.

Click? No. We do not click. You know we don't have one thing in common. We don't click in any way. We don't have chemistry or banter or common interests. You're a yoga instructor, you get colonics, you don't
appreciate the chaos and absurdity of life on this planet and in this city, you don't understand irony or eccentricity or poetry or the simple joy of being a regular at your diner on your block - I love that. You don't drink coffee or alcohol, you don't overeat or
cry when you're alone, you don't understand sarcasm, you plod through life in a neat, colourless caffeine free dairy free conflict free banal self-possessed way. I'm bold and angry and tortured and tremendous
and I notice when somebody has changed their hair parting or when somebody is wearing two distinctly different shades of black or when someone changes the natural timbre of their voice on the phone. I don't
give out empty praise, I'm not complacent or well-adjusted. I can't spend 50 minutes breathing and stretching and getting in touch with myself, I can't even spend three minutes finishing an article. I check
my phone machine nine times a day because I feel there's so much to do and fix and change in the world and I wonder every day if I'm making a difference and if I will ever express greatness or if I will remain
forever paralysed by muddled madness inside my head. I've wept on every birthday I ever had because life is huge and fleeting and I hate certain people and certain shoes and I feel that life is terribly unfair
and sometimes beautiful and wonderful and extraordinary and also numbing and horrifying and insurmountable and I hate myself a lot of the time but the rest of the time I adore myself. I adore my life
in this city, in this world that we live in, in this huge and wondrous bewildering brilliant horrible world.
(Pause)
In these ways I feel that we do not click.

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Sep 01, 2008 marg rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Maggie O'Farrel is a great discovery - thanks Khay - this book was similar to Esme (which was both impressive and unimpressive - on the one hand, it's amazing to see how someone can be so crafty at developing multiple narratives and plot lines, but then when it happens twice you kind of feel like even something unique can be a formula) in that, without paining the reader (ie, Time Travlers Wife), the author delivers a story that is both captivating and mysterious, the pieces coming to light slow...more

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Aug 02, 2011 JChipol added it · review of another edition

This book is one that was recommended to me, and one that ordinarily I may not have picked up from the bookshelves. It is sold as a weepy 'chick -lit' kind of book, and one that demands that you have the Kleenex on hand. It was a heart wrenching story, that's true, but written with sensitivity, beauty and unrelenting tragedy.

Ultimately the novel is about a young woman, Alice Raikes, who, after a short and mysterious visit to her hometown in Scotland, returns to London only to step out into traff...more

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May 08, 2013 Esther rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Really good. I kept thinking while reading this how vivid everything is. The characters, the settings it all comes to life through the right pitch of intricate details and realistic dialogue. The plot switches to different points in time. I am a sucker for the intrigue and insight this gives the reader. Although knowing the main male character dies right from the off, does give scenes a certain Casualty* vibe - what no careful getting off that train. Oh no he's off to Canary Wharf..what year are...more

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Feb 17, 2013 Kris rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ebooks

This book would have gotten five stars if the author hadn't just stopped writing on the last page. It was as if she'd hit her desired word count & literally stopped typing.

This is the story of Alice Raikes who lives in London. She takes a spontaneous trip to Scotland to visit her sisters & is in a coma in the hospital later that day after being hit by a car. The two questions underlying the book are 1)what did she see in Scotland that caused her to leave so abruptly? and 2)was being hit...more

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Jan 01, 2013 Hannah Wingfield rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

After You’d Gone is easily one of the best books I’ve read in 2012, if not one of the best books I’ve read, ever. It has certainly put Maggie O’Farrell on my favourite authors-whose-entire-back-catalogues-I-must-read list, and I can’t fathom why when I tried to read this in 2008 I didn’t get beyond the first few pages. Perhaps it was the disjointed narrative, which slips from present to past and back again, with a changing voice that sometimes differs even between paragraphs and was initially a...more

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Dec 12, 2012 Winna rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: general-fiction, mellow-books

After You'd Gone has been on my shelf for quite sometime, but I haven't really made time to read it until 3 days ago. The synopsis attracted me, and I got this from Bookmooch years ago.

It's one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. It's definitely unconventional, the story going back and forth in time, with no permanent narrators. The point of view switches from first and third person, and oddly I find that refreshing because that's also how I once wrote my novel drafts. It sometimes valid...more

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Aug 19, 2012 Caly rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: modern, mystery, realistic, scotland, england, favorites

This book was one of my finds in a book outlet store on the Wildwood boardwalk. I loved that store so much, because many of my high-rated books and authors I learned about just by picking up books that looked interesting from their shelves.

This is one that I always come back too when someone asks me my favourite books. I like books that are very deep, psychological and yet manage to keep the story riveting, and After You'd Gone does this in spades. It weaves artfully through the memories of Ali...more

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Feb 10, 2012 Sandy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

From the opening pages, it is clear that Alice is suffering from a double whammy of traumatic heartache but we don't know why. The novel unfolds in an interesting fashion of perspective changes and flashbacks, deftly handled, to reveal, piece by piece, the history, love story, secrets and tragedy that defines Alice and explains her emotional state and suicidal behaviour. O'Farrell's writing is superb. I was deeply drawn in. Alice is an intense, complex character that is rendered fully dimensiona...more

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Jan 30, 2012 Vero rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Yo begin i must clarify that this is my favorite book of all. I read it the first time when i was in high school and have re read it a few times ever since. I just love the writing type of Maggie O'farrell and for a first novel this is amazing.

The book is about Alice a woman who at the beginning of the novel is hit by a car (which might be an accident or suicide attempt) and she is now in a coma. The book tells us about her life from childhood and about her family. You have parts from the past...more

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Nov 28, 2011 Zhi Xin Lee rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

AS I WAS SAYING, since I foolishly forgot to copy it before I pressed 'save' even though I was reminding myself beforehand as my internet was sucking, I cried a lot despite myself and despite recognising the same sort of thread in TTW. Now in the review that didn't get through I wrote stuff about timing and TTW's interesting premise, but since this is a rewrite I don't feel like going through that again. Anyhow, level of detail is superb as usual; plot is somewhat conventional, to the point wher...more

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Aug 01, 2011 Olduvai rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

You know that rule some people have about reading 50 pages of a book and deciding whether to put it down or continue with it? Well I’m not sure if this would have made it if I were a stickler to that rule. Actually, writing that, I’m not sure exactly which page it was that made me realize I liked this book. But I do know that I mostly muddled my way through the first lot of pages. The narration confused me a little. Multiple points of view, different periods of time. It was as if the pieces of t...more You know that rule some people have about reading 50 pages of a book and deciding whether to put it down or continue with it? Well I’m not sure if this would have made it if I were a stickler to that rule. Actually, writing that, I’m not sure exactly which page it was that made me realize I liked this book. But I do know that I mostly muddled my way through the first lot of pages. The narration confused me a little. Multiple points of view, different periods of time. It was as if the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle were in front of me, but I didn’t have the faintest idea what the picture was. It didn’t help that I read part of it after the 430/5 am feedings, using the night mode on the Bluefire ereader app.

But there was something about Alice. When she meets her John and they muddle their way into a relationship. There’s something about his doggedness, her seeming initial reluctance to be a part of it, then it grows into that sweetness of love, bolstered by their determination to be together despite disapproval. Their immense, heady, head-in-the-clouds love. That was what made me want to carry on. That was what took my own heart a little bit. This relationship, this character of Alice, these things creep under your skin and

The story begins with Alice, heading out on the train to Edinburgh to see her sisters. But something happens and she decides to head back to London. She steps out into the street and is hit by a car. As she lies in a coma in hospital, the narrative, as I had mentioned earlier*, flits from the present to the past, unravelling the circumstances that have led up to this day. This involves her mother, her grandmother, her sisters, and her John.

This story has stayed with me, and everytime I think of it, I feel strangely overwhelmed. There is so much emotion and sentiment in this story. Perhaps it’s a little melodramatic, but it is very moving, and beautifully and sharply written.

I look up O’Farrell’s bibliography and realised that this was her first novel. I can’t wait to read the rest of her books!(less)

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Sep 02, 2012 Angela Young rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is Maggie O'Farrell's first book and it remains my favourite of hers. It made me laugh and cry on the same page and I can't think of another book that's done that. It's also the only book I've read in a long reading life that I really could not put down. I read it in a weekend when the only others things I did were eat and sleep. It's written achronologically - a way of writing that I love - but I never got lost. Here's an extract from a piece I wrote for Normblog http://normblog.typepad.co ...more

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Oct 18, 2011 Martin rated it 4 of 5 stars

I started off this book dreading what I had got myself into. I'm not to great with names at the best of times and this is one book in which names play the most important role as you are drip fed stories about each person. Without knowing the names you would be lost completely. Amazingly I picked up the names quickly and soon fell in flow with the story, or more accurately, the multiple stories.

By page 100 I was loving the book. The way it it was written was so unique and fun, it is as if someon...more

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Aug 10, 2011 Heather rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was very impressed with Maggie O'Farrell's writing style, being her debut novel. It is hard to pull off a storyline that jumps back and forth between different characters and time lines, and although some did not seem to care for it, I think she pulled it off wonderfully. I was so involved in these characters, particularly Alice and her mother. I truly cared about what happened to them and couldn't wait to read more. Unfortunately, I was disappointed with the "shocking event" that Alice experi...more

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Jun 03, 2013 Dani rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I almost gave up on this one. The first third of the book meanders so much, the effect is more irritation than confusion. The various scenes from Alice's childhood were unnecessary, as were the asides about how her parents met, her grandmother's boarding-school years, etc. The alternating points of view and shifts in time also created a jarring, schizophrenic narrative that reads like a series of vignettes vs. a unified narrative.

The book was redeemed only by the central plot point, which hinges...more

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Jun 17, 2010 Amy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, read-in-2010

I really enjoyed Maggie O'Farrell's newest release so I was interested in going back and reading some of her earlier novels. This was her first novel and, honestly, it read like a first novel. I thought that there were moments of brilliance in the newer novel but I never really connected with this one. I tried to love it. I wanted to love it. But, ultimately, it was just good. Certainly not great. The writing wasn't nearly as wonderful in this book. It was fine writing but not great writing. May...more

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Nov 24, 2008 Khaya rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: People who are satisfied with a good read even if it isn't a great book

Recommended to Khaya by: marg

Shelves: marysues, chicklit

Authors who love their characters too much – on the next Oprah.

It happens to be a pet peeve of mine when authors seem to live out their narcissistic fantasies by creating mythically attractive characters who inspire desperate passion in all who see them. Aside from everything else, in my experience it’s completely unrealistic – women who are that universally attractive (and it’s a very narrow category) usually intimidate many, if not most, of the guys who would be chasing after them. Then there...more Authors who love their characters too much – on the next Oprah.

It happens to be a pet peeve of mine when authors seem to live out their narcissistic fantasies by creating mythically attractive characters who inspire desperate passion in all who see them. Aside from everything else, in my experience it’s completely unrealistic – women who are that universally attractive (and it’s a very narrow category) usually intimidate many, if not most, of the guys who would be chasing after them. Then there are the guys who retain some pride and are more calculated in their approach, even if the woman is that fabulously attractive. In this book, that didn’t exist – it was heartfelt passion expressed in full at first sight, by every guy who ever laid eyes on the main character.

I also felt that Maggie was trying to have her main character, Alice, be too many different clichéd idealized heroines. The self-sacrificing martyr, willing to lose the man she loves because she knows that’s what’s best for him. The ice princess who keeps herself perpetually aloof as men drop at her feet like flies. The strong, passionate, rebellious adolescent courageously (and obnoxiously) defying her rigid mother. The unstable, depressed/suicidal, needy woman. The fact that Alice filled all these contradictory roles at different points in the book made it difficult for me to suspend my disbelief. I couldn’t decide whether this was actually an instance of complex characterization, where the main character is completely three-dimensional and has all these various sides to her, or whether Maggie was simply sloppy and inconsistent and had difficulty integrating the various images she wanted her main character to fulfill.

Don’t get me wrong – really, this book should get at least four stars for readability alone. It was gripping, engaging, and certainly more complex (not to mention way better-written) than your average Harlequin. Unfortunately, the Harlequin moments did detract. They didn’t ruin the book for me, exactly, but the perfect romance got on my nerves. I wondered why John found Alice so consistently loveable over three years – I didn’t. I found their romance extremely one-dimensional, and ditto for Alice’s difficulty getting over it. Oh, perfect love! Oh, I will never get over this loss! Both love and grief are way more complex in real life than they were in this book. Loving relationships include difficult moments, not necessarily dramatic ones where an outside force is threatening the relationship, but regular everyday he’s-getting-on-my-nerves moments. And even when you’re truly grieving, I imagine there are moments where you have a little more of a grip on yourself and can be open to enjoying something or getting your act together, at least a little bit, even temporarily.

So overall, if you’re looking for something very readable and engaging, not as superficial as a Harlequin but not overly challenging, and are willing to not think too critically, I would say pick this book up. But only if you can borrow it or buy it used at a discount.
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Mar 31, 2012 Alison Moore rated it 5 of 5 stars

As far as I'm aware,this is the edition I read - the cover is the same. However the ISBN is different, and I was interested to see that the synopsis of the book is in French - I read it in English. Maybe mine is a recent reissue.

This book was a pleasure to read, both because the North Berwick, Edinburgh and London settings are all familiar to me, but because I loved the way the multiple viewpoints and the non-chronological structure helped to build up a picture of the whole story in such a way a...more

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Mar 31, 2012 Katrina rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books-read-in-2012, books-read-for-school, romance, womens-fiction

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Dec 16, 2011 Jill rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

While this book primarily tells the story of Alice, a young woman who grew up in Scotland and lives in present day London, the book also jumps to not only her past, but her mother's and grandmother's pasts as well. These frequent jumps can be a little confusing but also very satisfying as the details in the writing reveal the time and place of the ancedote being told. It's like a line drawing suddenly exploding with color and detail when your mind clicks all the pieces together.

The story address...more

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Jan 26, 2011 Jennifer (JC-S) rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: librarybooks

‘The day she tried to kill herself, she realized winter was coming again.’

Alice Raikes is a woman in love who has recently suffered a terrible tragedy. Alice travels to Scotland to see her sisters Kirsty and Beth, and almost immediately returns to London where she steps into the traffic and is taken to hospital in a coma.

‘Life’s cruel like that – it gives you no clues.’

What happened in Edinburgh that caused Alice to return to London? Was she hit by the car by accident, or was it a suicide attemp...more

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Oct 16, 2012 Renee rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is my third Maggie O'Farrell book and I'm still completely charmed. I love her style, her slow reveals, and the way she trusts her reader to understand the story without clearly spelling it out.

This story revolves around a girl named Alice. It begins with Alice being hit by a car, though we don't know if this was an accident or attempted suicide. Earlier that day, she had taken a spontaneous trip from London to Edinburgh to visit her family, but then hopped back on the train within minutes...more This is my third Maggie O'Farrell book and I'm still completely charmed. I love her style, her slow reveals, and the way she trusts her reader to understand the story without clearly spelling it out.

This story revolves around a girl named Alice. It begins with Alice being hit by a car, though we don't know if this was an accident or attempted suicide. Earlier that day, she had taken a spontaneous trip from London to Edinburgh to visit her family, but then hopped back on the train within minutes after seeing something shocking in the bathroom mirror of the train station. For the rest of the story, Alice is in a coma. We meet her through many, many flashbacks to her childhood, teen years, and adulthood. The most important story in her life is her relationship with John, who (at the time of the car accident) is no longer in her life. We also meet Alice's family: her parents, sisters, and grandmother. Several important flashbacks involve the earlier lives of the mother and grandmother. Family secrets, etc. I don't want to give too much away.

Like the two other O'Farrell books I've read ("The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox" and "The Hand That First Held Mine"), "After You'd Gone" is written in a non-linear, multiple-POV structure. I'll admit that a small part of me would like to see her use a different format, but at the same time, she does this very well. Instead of relying on cheap tricks, she keeps readers interested by constantly making them think. You don't always know where in the timeline of the story you are or what has happened to lead to this point, so you're constantly piecing the story together. This is something O'Farrell excels at, so I can understand why she has used the structure so many times.

I enjoyed this story quite a bit, though I never felt I really knew Alice. The pieces of her we're given conflict a bit and I could never get a firm grasp on her personality. Especially where boys are concerned. She seems to have some mysterious charm (unpresented by O'Farrell) that makes boys not just fall in love with her, but become obsessively infatuated. It didn't make sense. I also had a hard time understanding the main conflict in Alice's relationship with John, and the end of their relationship just didn't sit well with me. It didn't feel natural (though I understand what O'Farrell was going for).

Really enjoyed this. I will definitely be moving on to O'Farrell's other books soon. (less)

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May 03, 2011 Artie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I enjoyed this a lot. It is confusing, beautiful, sad and at times very moving, an intimate portrait of a family and love, and how things affect and resonate, sometimes without us ever being aware. This book offered me more confidence in my own current novel, knee deep in rewrites, not because my story is as interesting or as well told, but more because it isn't linear, and I wasn't sure if it could hold up and be strong enough, but this book showed me that it is possible, so if it fails it is m...more

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Apr 16, 2008 Sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: adults only

Recommended to Sarah by: no one

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Jul 17, 2011 Olduvai rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ebook, library, 2011

You know that rule some people have about reading 50 pages of a book and deciding whether to put it down or continue with it? Well I’m not sure if this would have made it if I were a stickler to that rule. Actually, writing that, I’m not sure exactly which page it was that made me realize I liked this book. But I do know that I mostly muddled my way through the first lot of pages. The narration confused me a little. Multiple points of view, different periods of time. It was as if the pieces of t...more You know that rule some people have about reading 50 pages of a book and deciding whether to put it down or continue with it? Well I’m not sure if this would have made it if I were a stickler to that rule. Actually, writing that, I’m not sure exactly which page it was that made me realize I liked this book. But I do know that I mostly muddled my way through the first lot of pages. The narration confused me a little. Multiple points of view, different periods of time. It was as if the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle were in front of me, but I didn’t have the faintest idea what the picture was. It didn’t help that I read part of it after the 430/5 am feedings, using the night mode on the Bluefire ereader app.

But there was something about Alice. When she meets her John and they muddle their way into a relationship. There’s something about his doggedness, her seeming initial reluctance to be a part of it, then it grows into that sweetness of love, bolstered by their determination to be together despite disapproval. Their immense, heady, head-in-the-clouds love. That was what made me want to carry on. That was what took my own heart a little bit. This relationship, this character of Alice, these things creep under your skin and

The story begins with Alice, heading out on the train to Edinburgh to see her sisters. But something happens and she decides to head back to London. She steps out into the street and is hit by a car. As she lies in a coma in hospital, the narrative, as I had mentioned earlier*, flits from the present to the past, unravelling the circumstances that have led up to this day. This involves her mother, her grandmother, her sisters, and her John.

This story has stayed with me, and everytime I think of it, I feel strangely overwhelmed. There is so much emotion and sentiment in this story. Perhaps it’s a little melodramatic, but it is very moving, and beautifully and sharply written.

I look up O’Farrell’s bibliography and realised that this was her first novel. I can’t wait to read the rest of her books!(less)

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May 09, 2010 Cat rated it 5 of 5 stars

"Sliding between different levels of consciousness, Alice listens to the conversations around her, and begins sifting through recollections of her past, and of a recently curtailed love affair."

Alice is in a coma for most of the book, and you learn about her and her family and life through her recollections and various conversations. Sometimes it's out of chronological order but it never feels confusing or irritating. I had a tear in my eye at the end of this book. What a fantastic debut novel t...more

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Mar 01, 2011 Bistra Ivanova rated it 3 of 5 stars

Recommended to Bistra by: Kaloyana

Shelves: fiction

Твърде големи бяха очакванията ми и затова книгата ме разочарова - и като история, и като стил. Личи си, че е първи роман на авторката - забелязах твърде много "дупки" и "кръпки" в повествованието, твърде много неща, на които никога не бих повярвала, хаотична ми се видя на места с това прескачане между минало и настояще, между гласовете на един и или друг герой и... винаги ме дразни онзи трик с прекъсване на главата точно на най-интересното :-)

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Apr 11, 2012 Hazel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

One of my favourite books ever. It's funny, it's emotional, it's thoughtful. It cultured me immensely, the characters are so real and the world is my own world in a way that involved me so much.
It took me some time to put this book down even after I had finished it. Every time I read it I always feel the sameway , like there is something for her to hold onto in the end even if her whole world was turned upside down. And I want her to get out of the bed and carry on with her life and keep being t...more

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Jul 08, 2010 Charlotte E rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010

I took this book with me to France and my God am I glad I did! Our plane on the way home got cancelled and I ended up stuck in a departure lounge with no shops/any entertain apart from this book for about 7 hours! This really was the perfect book to have with me! The writing was brilliant; at no point did I find it jarring like I sometimes do with certain authors. I'd never read anything by Maggie O'Farrell before and can't actually remember how the book came to be in my possession....possibly f...more

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