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Unseemly Longing
'You must wonder why this has happened to you,' someone said when I was in hospital. I didn't. I don't. It was clear from the moment I opened my eyes in intensive care that the question is 'Why not?' This is a random game of roulette we're playing, and we don't get to spin the chamber. Kirsten Campbell has confronted the ultimate experience. Now, trapped between a detachment from life and a longing for death, she is given a second chance ...
240 pages
First published August 4, 1997
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February 25, 2018
Odd book. It just didn't hold my interest. Perhaps I missed it but I took ages to actually figure out exactly what had happened to the main character. I finished the book but only because it was relatively short. Any longer and I would have given up.
July 14, 2013
Unseemly Boring I can't say I enjoyed the story that much. It had potential but the whole thing seemed to be a lot of random name dropping and it was padded with fluff. Like the character in the novel who was recovering from brain surgery and felt disconnected with her previous life, I felt disconnected with the novel. I'm not sure if it was the writing style, the main character or the day-time soap opera (that seemed to be a running theme), that made me not care, but something didn't quite work. Perhaps it wasn't gritty enough for me. I give it 2 and a half stars.
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