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The Dreamhouse by Kate Grenville is an interesting tale centring on the marriage of Louise and Reynold. Reynold needs to complete a dissertation and is offered a villa in Tuscany by his colleague Daniel. That is the hub of the book but what occurs is far more complex and involved.
You witness events through the eyes of Louise which is limiting but also illuminating. Louise is a woman in turmoil, in a marriage where she is not happy. Reynold is trying to be a woman’s man but there are hints that h ...more
You witness events through the eyes of Louise which is limiting but also illuminating. Louise is a woman in turmoil, in a marriage where she is not happy. Reynold is trying to be a woman’s man but there are hints that h ...more
I enjoyed this book. I found it quite raunchy for a book written in 1986.
Perhaps a little clunky, and even quite uncomfortable to read in the way it screamed "leave him" in places. But all in all I enjoyed it.
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Perhaps a little clunky, and even quite uncomfortable to read in the way it screamed "leave him" in places. But all in all I enjoyed it.
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Nov 14, 2012
Zoë
marked it as i-will-never-read
