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One day, I will meet Rachel Joyce and I will ask her to be my best friend.
Summary: Lady hits child with car - or does she? Lady befriends child's mother, who is a pariah. Convoluted relationship ensues, with equal parts deception and love. And don't get me started on the lady's husband, who treats his family like a curator might treat things in his museum. Et cetera.
What a wonderful novel. This woman can write, and she actually creates deep, sympathetic characters to move in her inventive storyl ...more
Summary: Lady hits child with car - or does she? Lady befriends child's mother, who is a pariah. Convoluted relationship ensues, with equal parts deception and love. And don't get me started on the lady's husband, who treats his family like a curator might treat things in his museum. Et cetera.
What a wonderful novel. This woman can write, and she actually creates deep, sympathetic characters to move in her inventive storyl ...more
I enjoyed this story and the writing, but like this author's other book The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, I just couldn't connect with this book as much as I would have liked.
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Gripping psychological thriller full of twists and turns and an ending that I didn't see coming. 4 stars!
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3.5 Stars
So many times I love a book but don't like the ending. This book is just the opposite.
The story is interesting but very depressing. There are two stories running side by side forty some years apart. The story told by the 13 year old boy was extremely depressing and sometimes I wondered if things were as bad as he said or if it was just in his mind. The mom of the 13 year old boy seemed to be clueless about life around her which seemed a bit off since it is hinted that she was not this ...more
So many times I love a book but don't like the ending. This book is just the opposite.
The story is interesting but very depressing. There are two stories running side by side forty some years apart. The story told by the 13 year old boy was extremely depressing and sometimes I wondered if things were as bad as he said or if it was just in his mind. The mom of the 13 year old boy seemed to be clueless about life around her which seemed a bit off since it is hinted that she was not this ...more
Sep 19, 2013
Nancy Brady
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3.5 stars actually--this is a novel that is difficult to define. Two seconds are to be added to the clock in 1972, and it is these two seconds that drive the whole novel. The reader meets Byron and his mother Diana; the reader meets Jim, the man who has OCD mental issues, too. As the novel continues the reader becomes involved with caring about both, and the reader sees how each changes as their lives eventually intersect.
Will either ...more
3.5 stars actually--this is a novel that is difficult to define. Two seconds are to be added to the clock in 1972, and it is these two seconds that drive the whole novel. The reader meets Byron and his mother Diana; the reader meets Jim, the man who has OCD mental issues, too. As the novel continues the reader becomes involved with caring about both, and the reader sees how each changes as their lives eventually intersect.
Will either ...more
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