Family Album : a Novel of Secrets and Memories

by Margaret Scott

Genres: Fiction

523 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Heather Wright · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't like, or believe in the characters and their actions in this book which interrogates the concept of memory. I did like the Tasmanian, and literary, palimpsests and allusions which lace the novel throughout. I felt it was heavily laden with autobiographical material. A sad disappointment as I am thrilled to the heart by the author's fine poetry.

[Michelle · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book contains another book that a character is writing - an imagined family history. It is so filled with self pity, sulking and manipulation that it was a drag to read. The part of the novel set in more current times is better but would get interrupted by the other writing.

[Giulia M. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I honestly didn't like it. I was very willing to read it and enjoyed the first chapters a lot, but in the end... Well, it was just boring. I am so sorry to say this.

[Linda May · Rating 1 out of 5]

Disappointingly stilted style, and Scott takes extraordinary lengths to establish how painfully dull and boringly predictable are some of her characters. Martha eventually drove me away at page 57.

[Teresa Bolster · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another book-within-a-book. Cannot understand the one and two star reviews.

[Esther · Rating 3 out of 5]

A parallel story of a family and their secrets. These discoveries lead to finding new family, and many stories. A parallel 'story' is written which is a surprising twist.