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Carregando... A Hundred Small Lessons: A Novelde Ashley Hay
  
Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) DebTat2 | Oct 13, 2023 |   ) JeanneBlasberg | Apr 30, 2019 | Another thing she hadn’t understood all the years before Tom came along: motherhood’s terror—extremity, catastrophe, terror. The crazy swing from love to dread that could disrupt the most nondescript day. No mother she’d known had talked of it: not her sisters, nor her mother, not the friends she’d left behind in every place they’d lived. [Which might be because some of us never fell captive to it! My mother was a catastrophist, so I know how exasperating it is for the child.] There were so many things to worry about—Tom himself, and the spiders in the garden; the planet; and everything in between. She couldn’t bear to watch the news. Some twins, she’d heard the edge of a report just this morning, had been starved to death by their own mother in this very city. She’d broken a plate in her hurry to switch off the radio. So when odd things happen, like the disappearance of Lucy’s phone from her kitchen, overnight footmarks in the wet lawn and unexplained noises at night, the reader (like the bemused husband) is never quite sure whether Lucy is just being melodramatic or these oddities have really happened. To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2018/10/24/a-hundred-small-lessons-by-ashley-hay-bookre... ( ) anzlitlovers | Oct 24, 2018 | A pleasant read with some nice moments of recognition on the difficult experience of elderly leaving their homes for good but too many neatly planned coincidences between the new owners and the past. An escapist read. (  ) HelenBaker | Jun 23, 2018 | ) oldblack | May 12, 2018 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"From the author of the highly acclaimed The Railwayman's Wife, called a "literary and literate gem" by Psychology Today, comes an emotionally resonant and profound new novel of two families, interconnected through the house that bears witness to their lives. When Elsie Gormley leaves the Brisbane house in which she has lived for more than sixty years, Lucy Kiss and her family move in, eager to establish their new life. As they settle in, Lucy and her husband Ben struggle to navigate their transformation from adventurous lovers to new parents, taking comfort in memories of their vibrant past as they begin to unearth who their future selves might be. But the house has secrets of its own, and the rooms seem to share recollections of Elsie's life with Lucy. In her nearby nursing home, Elsie traces the span of her life--the moments she can't bear to let go and the places to which she dreams of returning. Her beloved former house is at the heart of her memories of marriage, motherhood, love, and death, and the boundary between present and past becomes increasingly porous for both her and Lucy. Over the course of one hot Brisbane summer, two families' stories intersect in sudden and unexpected ways. Through the richly intertwined narratives of two ordinary, extraordinary women, Ashley Hay uses her "lyrical prose, poetic dialogue, and stunning imagery" (RT magazine) to weave an intricate, bighearted story of what it is to be human"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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