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On an East Coast island, full of tall pine moaning with sea gusts, Delilah moves into a cottage by the shore. The neighbours gossip as they watch her clean, black hair tied back in a white rubber band. They don’t like it when she plants a garden out front - orange red carpinus caroliniana and silvery blue hosta. Very unusual, they whisper.
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I love this book. And I'm not just saying that because I wrote it.
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Oh my I just have to let you all know how good this book is and how much I enjoyed every single page.
I never have read a story before about how gardening can make you fall in love with not just gardening but men!
Delilah moves into a cottage next door to a yellow cottage, both have to share the same driveway. She is having an affair with a married man. But its not long when she gets quite friendly with the sheriff. It seems Delilah is a bit of a flirt she teases he ...more
Oh my I just have to let you all know how good this book is and how much I enjoyed every single page.
I never have read a story before about how gardening can make you fall in love with not just gardening but men!
Delilah moves into a cottage next door to a yellow cottage, both have to share the same driveway. She is having an affair with a married man. But its not long when she gets quite friendly with the sheriff. It seems Delilah is a bit of a flirt she teases he ...more
A novella that didn’t quite work for me because I so disliked the protagonist, Delilah, a selfish kept woman whose Cape Cod cottage has been bought for her by her older married lover. 2/5
Pub Date 11 Jul 2018.
Thanks to the author, Fairlight Books and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are mine.
#DrivewayHasTwoSides #NetGalley
Pub Date 11 Jul 2018.
Thanks to the author, Fairlight Books and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are mine.
#DrivewayHasTwoSides #NetGalley
This was such an easy to read, curious novella. I went in expecting a story about a feud between neighbours, but that's not the premise at all - a pleasant surprise. I was charmed by Marchant's characters and enjoyed the descriptions of gardens quite a lot. A few pointed feminist observations endeared me to protagonist Delilah even more. An enjoyable, quick read.
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A short and sweet story about my ideal life: being given a beach-side cottage on an island, with money to renovate it and create a garden. Full of lush details of deciding how to design and build it, this was really lovely.
A short and sweet story about my ideal life: being given a beach-side cottage on an island, with money to renovate it and create a garden. Full of lush details of deciding how to design and build it, this was really lovely.
When my eye was caught by a series of novellas offered by a new UK publisher via NetGalley, I was determined to sample one or two and this is the one I read first.
An intriguing scenario and characters who may or may not be quite who everyone on this small, gossipy island thinks they are, I had no idea right to last page where the story might be headed. It could have gone in any number of directions (sinister, tragic, romantic or perhaps all of these) and that always appeals to me. The writing is ...more
An intriguing scenario and characters who may or may not be quite who everyone on this small, gossipy island thinks they are, I had no idea right to last page where the story might be headed. It could have gone in any number of directions (sinister, tragic, romantic or perhaps all of these) and that always appeals to me. The writing is ...more
A short and sweet story. I enjoyed the prose, as often, much more than the plot. Though I do think this story will not stay with me for all that long.
A relatively uneventful story about a young woman, new to a small community, who has a penchant for gardening and older men. Ultimately, this is a quiet love story, with an aspect of mystery attempted that didn’t really intrigue me. Not badly written by any means, but the characters were pretty one dimensional and I didn’t find the story terribly exciting.
Thank you to Fairlight Moderns for providing an ebook via Netgalley in exchange for an honest opinion
Thank you to Fairlight Moderns for providing an ebook via Netgalley in exchange for an honest opinion
A sensual, earthy book about loneliness and the search for deep and all-consuming love. I could not put it down. I loved it.
I received an ARC of this book to read in exchange for a fair review. Sara Marchant’s novella The Driveway Has Two Sides is the perfect book to read on a sunny afternoon in your hammock. The story is about Delilah who has come to live in a cottage on an island near Cape Cod purchased for her by her lover who has a wife and family elsewhere. It’s about the garden Delilah creates and the mysterious man next door who’s driveway is shared with Delilah’s cottage. I very much enjoyed this story. Publi
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The publisher, Fairlight Moderns, provided this novella to me as an ARC. Although I provided more solid feedback to the publisher, my feelings about this one are such that I'm disinclined to write extensively about it here. However, I do want readers/followers to be aware that if you have similar responses to content as I do as evidenced by my other ratings and reviews, I dissuade you from this one.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this quirky little tale.
Although the first chapter was quite interesting, I slowly got bored of reading about flowers and gardening.
Really enjoyed this novella.A woman living on her own a beautiful young woman ,a woman who occasionally has a male visit an older male who drives a Porsche.She is busy decorating her small house and gardening.Who is this young woman what is her story.Well written involving. kept me turning the pages. #netgally #fairlightbooks
I really enjoyed this, at just under 130pages this was a great lazy Sunday afternoon read. Delilah moves into a previously abandoned cottage with a shared driveway on a small east coast island; Monday to Friday she works tirelessly to turn the cottage and its garden's into a home funded by her boyfriend Alan who visits each weekend. She quickly becomes a central figure of the other islander's gossip as they try to suss out this mysterious newcomer. It's not the most dramatic of stories, I can't
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Sara Marchant's core idea in her novella, The Driveway Has Two Sides, really intrigued me, and I couldn't wait to read it. I enjoyed Marchant's writing a lot; there were some really lovely turns of phrase here, and the characters felt utterly realistic. Whilst not a novella in which a great deal happens - it is largely about relationships and gardening, which do make for an interesting combination - I found it highly compelling. I look forward to reading more works by Marchant, and seeking out m
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**I am deeply grateful to the publisher and the author for providing me a copy of this book through Netgalley. This review solely contains my honest thoughts and opinions.**
The first time I saw the cover of The Driveway Has Two Sides on Netgalley, I got curious what the story was about. As a book cover picker, I couldn’t help but be drawn to the simplicity of its cover. It felt like I was told that behind that cover, there was a story that needs to be read. Because I didn’t have any thought in m ...more
The first time I saw the cover of The Driveway Has Two Sides on Netgalley, I got curious what the story was about. As a book cover picker, I couldn’t help but be drawn to the simplicity of its cover. It felt like I was told that behind that cover, there was a story that needs to be read. Because I didn’t have any thought in m ...more
THE DRIVEWAY HAS TWO SIDES by @sarahmarchant
Delilah moves to a cottage by the sea which shares a driveway with a big yellow house. She is new to this little island where she sure has everyone's attention... everyone including her neighbour- a stranger just like her on this island that they choose to call home.
The book is a short story by @fairlightbooks and it's such a wonderful read!
Delilah loves to garden, and her zeal to create a beautiful garden around her home is one of the many interest ...more
Delilah moves to a cottage by the sea which shares a driveway with a big yellow house. She is new to this little island where she sure has everyone's attention... everyone including her neighbour- a stranger just like her on this island that they choose to call home.
The book is a short story by @fairlightbooks and it's such a wonderful read!
Delilah loves to garden, and her zeal to create a beautiful garden around her home is one of the many interest ...more
Time for another Fairlight Modern novella! This time we’re off to a remote island on the east coast of America, to a world of crisp winter winds and pines, and sudden summer influxes of tourists; a world where the year-round residents all know everyone else’s secrets and newcomers are watched with suspicion. And the gossiping islanders have plenty to occupy them now, because an old rental cottage has just been sold to the young and beautiful Delilah. The neighbours wonder about her story (and he
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I liked the overall story line of this story. I can't sum it up or it will give the whole book away. It took a long time to get a little information though, or so it felt. I arrived to the ending and I feel empty! I wish I knew more to Delilah and Anton's story! I also can't tell if I like her or dislike her, because I didn't get far enough in her mind. This was a story told completely from the 3rd person, so it told the story of Delilah then switched to Ted then to Alan all within the same part
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This was a nice and quick read, but I don't feel like I gained anything by reading it. I didn't really like Delilah, so I wasn't too invested in her side of the story. She seemed very selfish and had absolutely no care for anyone other than herself. I feel like Anton had a lot of potential, but we didn't get much about him or from his side. The story was interesting enough to keep reading, but I felt like it was lacking something to make it really stand out and be memorable.
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2.5/5.0
This was good, without being brilliant. I really enjoyed the setting and the first part of the book, but then it left me feeling like it was incomplete, like I missed parts along the way. I felt the characters were very flat, I didn't connect with any of them and they were very underdeveloped; I found no reasoning behind what the main character was doing. The writing, although, was quite good, I liked itç ...more
This was good, without being brilliant. I really enjoyed the setting and the first part of the book, but then it left me feeling like it was incomplete, like I missed parts along the way. I felt the characters were very flat, I didn't connect with any of them and they were very underdeveloped; I found no reasoning behind what the main character was doing. The writing, although, was quite good, I liked itç ...more
I found this short story somewhat uneventful, and the characters a bit one-dimensional. The island and its gossips were the most interesting part, and I found the main character, Delilah, not particularly likable. I'm afraid it would not inspire me to read more from this author.
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'The Driveway Has Two Sides' proved to be such a gripping read. I loved how the action unfolded, gently like a ball of yarn. Sara Marchant does a great job at describing a small, closed community. Delilah was a very interesting central character, and there was so much power in her quiet story. Reading this book was a lovely way to spend an idle afternoon.
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If you enjoy quirky love stories, a good mystery, island living, and gardening, then this is your novella. Well-written, great characters, a fun location, Ms. Marchant takes the reader on a charming ride.
Pure delight! I can still smell the rosemary!
Rather lovely. I was rooting for Delilah, and Anton, and Ted; and for Alan to get his comeuppance, obviously :)
2.5/5 ⭐️’s
Well, this book made me smile. A light-hearted novella with a bit of mystery. Delilah has moved into a neglected cottage on a small island. She has picked it with her married lover, who spends most of his time elsewhere with his family. Delilah is often on her own and consequently has plenty of time and energy for home making and gardening.
As a lone attractive woman she provides a source of interest to several of the island’s menfolk and I loved Delilah’s self-awareness and ability to twist the ...more
As a lone attractive woman she provides a source of interest to several of the island’s menfolk and I loved Delilah’s self-awareness and ability to twist the ...more
This is a quick, great read with a refreshing twist on vulnerabilities in relationships and a realistic look at the magic of love. Enjoy. Looking forward to more from Sara Marchant.
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