- Hardcover: 464 pages
- Publisher: UK General Books (April 20 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0007285930
- ISBN-13: 978-0007285938
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 4.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 739 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #506,905 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Acclaim for Rosie Thomas: 'Rosie Thomas writes with beautiful, effortless prose, and shows a rare compassion and a real understanding of the nature of love.' The Times 'Heart-rending and beautifully written!I read it in one delicious go, tears pouring down my face. You cannot fail to be moved' Emma Lee-Potter, Express 'A terrific book, beautifully written! questions about identity, belonging, infidelity, dying and forgiveness make this a very moving study of the human heart.' Australian Women's Weekly 'Honest and absorbing, Rosie Thomas mixes the bitter and the hopeful with the knowledge that the human heart is far more complicated than any rule suggests.' Mail on Sunday 'A lush and sweeping voyage of self-discovery' Eithne Farry, Daily Mail 'Prepare to be dazzled!an epic tale of sisterhood and betrayal.' Company 'A master storyteller.' Cosmopolitan 'Thomas's novels are beautifully written. This one is a treat.' Marie Claire
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From the bestselling author of Iris and Ruby comes a novel of a group of old friends reunited to start a new stage of their lives. Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. Reviving a university dream, she invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live, and to stave off the prospect of old age. All have their own reasons for accepting. To begin with, omens are good. They laugh, dance, drink and behave badly, as they cling to the heritage they thought was theirs for ever: power, health, stability. They are the baby boomers; the world is theirs to change. But as old attractions resurface alongside new tensions, they discover that the clock can't be put back. When building work reveals an Iron Age burial site of a tribal queen, the outside world descends on their idyllic retreat, and the isolation of the group is breached. Now the past is revealed; and the future that beckons is very different from the one they imagined.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
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By Pamela Mckinnon "Traveling Pam" (Vancouver Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Lovers And Newcomers (Hardcover)
The premise for this novel is good and that is what makes it so unfortunate that I found it a very dull book. I have read other Rosie Thomas books and have enjoyed them. I really like her earlier work such as "Strangers". Anyway this one started off ok but really lost impetus. I had to struggle to finish it. I didn't find the characters particularlty engrossing. It is written from an older person's perspective which is good for me as I am an older person, in that regard I could relate. However, she tries and I think fails to bring in a younger set of characters and storylines. They don't seem to meld. Not for me anyway. I think the only character I connected with was Katherine. She had the courage to change her life. It is an ok read but for me, it wasn't that great.
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