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What time is it there?: A long-distance friendship: a lifeline...
Two women, two countries.
Serendipity, life, friendship.
Diane, a young Australian mother meets Maggie, an older, sophisticated American poet, in a chance encounter. Everything -- age, class and even nationality -- separates them. Unknown to Diane, Maggie is grieving for her eldest daughter and trapped in a marriage involving infidelity and rape. Diane yearns for the same life altering opportunities given to her brother. This is a story of two unfulfilled women finding each other when they needed it most. Their pen-friendship will change them forever.
Serendipity, life, friendship.
Diane, a young Australian mother meets Maggie, an older, sophisticated American poet, in a chance encounter. Everything -- age, class and even nationality -- separates them. Unknown to Diane, Maggie is grieving for her eldest daughter and trapped in a marriage involving infidelity and rape. Diane yearns for the same life altering opportunities given to her brother. This is a story of two unfulfilled women finding each other when they needed it most. Their pen-friendship will change them forever.
270 pages, Paperback
Published February 3, 2020
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May 13, 2022
What time is it there? by Glenice Whitting was a delightful read. The friendship of these two so different women was endearing and absolutely compelling. The author writes beautifully! Diane and Maggie are both complex characters and felt real and close to me. Fantastic book, incredible journey. I highly recommend this book.
October 8, 2022
The book, What Time Is It There by Glenice Whitting centers around the lives of two women from two different walks of life. It begins with a chance meeting between two women; Diane, a young mother from Australia, and meets Maggie, an older, sophisticated American poet.
Two unfulfilled women with glaring differences soon have startling similarities which though draws them closer than ever. Maggie re-ignites in Diane her buried desire for education while Diane helps her live again through their friendship.
The book begins on a seemingly leisurely note but soon has its readers turning pages with the author’s straightforward style of writing. The plot begins gently taking the drawer on a compelling narrative, which keeps the reader hooked as the story unravels.
The characters are depicted in a real, vivid picture without leaving no illusions as to how flawed they are. Their wishes, choices, hopes, and dreams resonate deeply with the reader and are brought to life in their mind. Through the two women, the author narrates realistically the lives of women who despite their yearning to live and get more out of life are restrained by various constraints, mainly the society and people in their lives.
Glenice shows us the importance of friendship in life and how it can heal, and encourage us through the tough spaces on the journey of life. The need for someone in our lives with who we can be completely honest about our feelings and fears without fear of being judged or mocked.
All characters are well described with their habits and complexity giving the reader a clear understanding of their emotions and personality.
I recommend this book for lovers of books written in a straightforward yet compelling manner. One special thing which endears me about this book is how the writer told a compelling and powerful story about complex characters. It is a beautiful and powerful story that is best enjoyed when the lure to rush down to the ending is ignored.
I'll give this book a 5-star rating as it paints a vivid picture of situations and emotions and leaves the reader feeling like they have been on a wonderful and insightful journey. The author, in telling stories of these women leaves nuggets of wisdom based on life, friendship, and fulfillment anyone can learn from.
Two unfulfilled women with glaring differences soon have startling similarities which though draws them closer than ever. Maggie re-ignites in Diane her buried desire for education while Diane helps her live again through their friendship.
The book begins on a seemingly leisurely note but soon has its readers turning pages with the author’s straightforward style of writing. The plot begins gently taking the drawer on a compelling narrative, which keeps the reader hooked as the story unravels.
The characters are depicted in a real, vivid picture without leaving no illusions as to how flawed they are. Their wishes, choices, hopes, and dreams resonate deeply with the reader and are brought to life in their mind. Through the two women, the author narrates realistically the lives of women who despite their yearning to live and get more out of life are restrained by various constraints, mainly the society and people in their lives.
Glenice shows us the importance of friendship in life and how it can heal, and encourage us through the tough spaces on the journey of life. The need for someone in our lives with who we can be completely honest about our feelings and fears without fear of being judged or mocked.
All characters are well described with their habits and complexity giving the reader a clear understanding of their emotions and personality.
I recommend this book for lovers of books written in a straightforward yet compelling manner. One special thing which endears me about this book is how the writer told a compelling and powerful story about complex characters. It is a beautiful and powerful story that is best enjoyed when the lure to rush down to the ending is ignored.
I'll give this book a 5-star rating as it paints a vivid picture of situations and emotions and leaves the reader feeling like they have been on a wonderful and insightful journey. The author, in telling stories of these women leaves nuggets of wisdom based on life, friendship, and fulfillment anyone can learn from.
July 21, 2021
What time is it There? by Glenis Whitting has received a Chill with a Book Readers' Award
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April 19, 2020
The poet Muriel Rukeyser once said: ‘What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open’. What time is it there? is a work that confronts you with truths about the lives of women, and how the truth can indeed split open the world of one’s own life. Beautifully and powerfully told, in What time is it there?, the reader embarks on a journey.
Born in a time when women were expected to leave school early to marry, Diane is a young, Australian wife, mother and hairdresser when she meets Maggie in the Australian desert. It is a meeting that will change both their lives.
American, world travelled, well read and sharply intelligent, Maggie has lived a life poles apart from Diane’s. The older and knowledgeable Maggie re-awakes in Diane her pushed down desire for education, education denied to her in her youth. For Maggie, her reasons for letting Diane into her life, and eventually her heart, are far more complicated.
Both women have dark secrets hidden away in their histories, and lives dictated and constrained by their female gender. The long years of deepening friendship reveals to Diane that Maggie’s life is not what it seems on the surface. Her friendship with Maggie is first unequal, but evolves over time to when Diane steps out of Maggie's shadow, seizes her own identity and self-determined destiny. Empathetic, full of life’s truths and wise – What time is it there? is a novel that stays with you and speaks to our hearts.
Born in a time when women were expected to leave school early to marry, Diane is a young, Australian wife, mother and hairdresser when she meets Maggie in the Australian desert. It is a meeting that will change both their lives.
American, world travelled, well read and sharply intelligent, Maggie has lived a life poles apart from Diane’s. The older and knowledgeable Maggie re-awakes in Diane her pushed down desire for education, education denied to her in her youth. For Maggie, her reasons for letting Diane into her life, and eventually her heart, are far more complicated.
Both women have dark secrets hidden away in their histories, and lives dictated and constrained by their female gender. The long years of deepening friendship reveals to Diane that Maggie’s life is not what it seems on the surface. Her friendship with Maggie is first unequal, but evolves over time to when Diane steps out of Maggie's shadow, seizes her own identity and self-determined destiny. Empathetic, full of life’s truths and wise – What time is it there? is a novel that stays with you and speaks to our hearts.
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