Violeta (by Isabel Allende)

I had never heard of Isabel Allende, and most probably would not have come across her novel Violeta, if it had not been on our local book group list. I left it a bit late to start reading, giving myself just three days before this month’s meeting, but I finished it just in time. It was a bit slow to get started, but it wasn’t a difficult read. 
‘Violeta’ is the fictional protagonist and narrator of this book, which is told in the slightly unusual form of a letter to her grandson. But it was ea...