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4.5 stars. This author deserves more attention. This was an amazing exploration of a family through several generations of women. I have a feeling that no review I write is likely to do it justice.
We begin with a husband and wife doing yard work. The wife answers the phone and learns her aunt has just passed away. As the executrix, she is responsible for winding up the estate, and so she goes to her aunt's house to begin that process.
While there, she finds some things the aunt left behind, and ...more
We begin with a husband and wife doing yard work. The wife answers the phone and learns her aunt has just passed away. As the executrix, she is responsible for winding up the estate, and so she goes to her aunt's house to begin that process.
While there, she finds some things the aunt left behind, and ...more
I didn't quite manage to read the whole book. At some point with books I end up speed reading the end because I am getting bored with the story. I think with this book I got so disappointed that something had happened, I didn't want to read on but I wanted to know what happened in the end. I think that is what I have done with a few of Jonathan Coe's books. It wouldn't stop me reading another of his.
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I'd never read anything by this author before - it was one I just randomly selected at the library. I liked the authors technique of having a story related through the description of old photographs. I thought the hidden secret of the family ultimately sad but not all that shocking.
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Mar 28, 2021
Keeley
marked it as to-read
Oct 21, 2023
Nanosynergy
marked it as to-read
