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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. We are in the 1960s, and are introduced to Phyl, a middle class housewife with a husband in the Foreign Office and two children. The family is prosperous and contented. Then Nick, the son of old friends comes for a meal, and everything changes. I was immediately immersed in this story, where first one twist, then another interposed itself in the narrative. Extraordinary as these twists were, the sixties setting gave them the ring of authenticity, and I had little difficulty in being totally sucked into the worlds which Phyl and her various connections inhabited. I found it a real page-turner. ( ) Hard to say how I felt about this. I seem to have read three other novels by Hadley, and as I look at my reviews I see that one, "The Master Bedroom," has the same plot! I didn't really relate to Phyllis, or to any of the other characters - most especially Nicky, whom I found both odious and boring. And Colette, the daughter, had what I found to be a not very believable trajectory. The setting, London in 1967, was also oddly boring. I guess she's not my favorite author. Tessa Hadley is one of my favorite writers-- no one can match her agile ability to eliminate psychic distance using third person narration. This novel lost me though when it descended into details about the 1960s political climate. And the ambiguity of the ending, while realistic, left me wanting to know more about the characters' fate. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy. When the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis in the dark garden after dinner, something in her catches fire. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis makes a choice that defies all expectations of her as a wife and a mother. Nothing in these ordinary lives is so ordinary after all, it turns out, as the family's upheaval mirrors the dramatic transformation of the society around them..." -- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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