![]() ![]() ![]() Mmm, mmm, mmm! I'm smackin' my lips! Juicy! This was just delectable. It's my first by this writer and certainly not my last. I loved this book and my experience reading it. ![]() There are many twists and turns, even through the last page. Told from multiple points of view and in strong voices, the story was compelling and the characters layered. It's what lies beneath that's not always evident or clear and I found my opinions shifting with each chapter. What's brilliant, however, is how impossible it is to form lasting judgments about the characters (with a couple of exceptions) as they are just sometimes victims of circumstances, making choices that may appear unforgivable on the surface. It didn't take me long to become almost mesmerized by the writing, even when I felt repulsed by some of the actions. The words matter here as they work to frame not only the events but capture the soul of each character. ![]() This is a tragic story told beautifully in an almost poetic style. This begins Leonora's tale of her life's odyssey amidst her family's secrets, shared with her daughter for the first time. The first is to Thievpal, site of the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme where her father, Captain John Hallows, perished in World War I. Six months following her husband's death, 70-year old Leonora Galloway takes her daughter, Penelope, on vacation to Paris but with a few unscheduled stops. ![]()
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