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Bezig met laden... Evening Ferry (2005)door Katherine Towler
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This second of a trilogy about life on the small Snow Island (probably the real life Prudence Island) off the RI coast confusingly (to me) advances in time and leave behind the characters that populated the first novel. However, island life deepens convincingly for Rachel Shattuck, who returns from a divorce and to care for her father, who she has always seen as a difficult villain in her family, when her mother dies and her father is injured. She becomes the teacher for the island's one-room schoolhouse and plunges into her late mother's journals, which reveal a very different reality than what Rachel saw growing up. It's very well written and perhaps even meatier than the first novel Snow Island. ( ) I was so glad to find a second book following the same characters because although I enjoyed the first book, Snow Island, I wanted to know "what happened" next. This book solved several of the questions I had, and added a few more! This book takes place 20 years after the first---now there is room for at least one more book---which I hope is at least in process. This book is set in the '60s. Rachel grew up on Snow Island but left it years ago. She is now a divorced schoolteacher still dealing with the death of her mother when her father, Nate, is involved in a construction accident and Rachel goes back to the island temporarily to care for him even though their relationship is rocky at best. Nate gives Rachel some notebooks that her mother used as diaries, and as Rachel reads them, her whole perspective changes about her mother and father. Wonderful story about the isolated and harsh life on the island and the loyalties of the people who live there and the gray areas of family life and forgiveness. Enjoyed this book very much. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Following on from the success of Snow Island, Katherine Towler returns to the fictional island with the second installment of this trilogy. Thirty-two year old Rachel Shattuck has not returned to Snow Island since she attended her mother's funeral. A year later, in the summer of 1965, she remains frightened of what she will confront at home: her mother's absence, her father's stern nature, and the unrealized promise of her own life now that she is divorced. When she returns to Snow Island to care for her father after he is injured in an accident, she discovers her mother's diaries, hidden in the house where she died a year earlier. What Rachel learns through reading her mother's diary and becoming an islander once again reveals the truth about her family's history and sets her own troubled life on a new course. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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