- Paperback: 401 pages
- Publisher: McArthur & Company / Not Applicable (Sep 20 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1552782492
- ISBN-13: 978-1552782491
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.4 x 3.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 558 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,739,033 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
Rosie Thomas writes with beautiful, effortless prose and shows a rare compassion and a real understanding of the nature of love.
About the Author
Rosie Thomas writes for magazines and newspapers as well as her fiction. When not writing she spends her time travelling and mountaineering. In 1997 she competed in the Peking to Paris Motor Rally, and she has climbed Mont Blanc as well as travelling to Everest and the Antarctic.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Ending had a twist, July 22 2011
By same - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The potter's house (Paperback)
Spoiler Ahead! I thought this was a great book. Other reviewers complained about the ending leaving the reader in limbo. I believe that the ending was the key to the entire story, kind of like how the ending of "The Sixth Sense" changes your perception of the events in the movie. My interpretation of the ending was that it reveals that Kitty actually died in the earthquake at the beginning of the book. The entire rest of the story was a surreal "flashback" about the life that never happened, i.e. the life she would have led had the tragic event of her childhood never occurred. Olivia's is the life that Kitty should have had.
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disappointing, May 18 2010
By Sam - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The potter's house (Paperback)
This was a pretty good book until the ending. I could not wait to get there and when I did it made me want to throw the book away. The characters were good and the setting and all but there were a lot of things that left me wondering. The ending made me want to say "It that all there is." I would not recommend this book.
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The Potter's House Rosie Thomas, April 25 2012
By VIctor Hardbattle - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The potter's house (Paperback)
The "Potter's House" skillfully weaves together the contrasting threads of the lives of two English women from similarEnglish backgrounds, strangers to each other at the outset, but with common links that are only gradually revealed. Two women thrown together on a tiny, isolated Greek island in the aftermath of a natural disaster. A closeness, which rapidly begins to reveal unhealthy undertones, develops between the two women. Something of a Gothic sense of inevitabie tragedy grows steadily as the plot unfolds, leading to a spinechilling twist as realisation of an unresolved "truth" finally emerges, a forseeable "shock-truth" which can only be resolved within the mind of the discerning reader.if you like your endings happy, clear-cut and unequivocal then perhaps this is not the book for you. On the other hand, if you like to be drawn into the tantalising webs of intrigue that surround the private lives of those around us, then waste no time in getting involved in this thought-provoking novel.
Incidentally, if you have ever wondered what life might be like in a tiny, remote Greek island-village once the hot season ends and we tourists have packed away our suncream and bathing suits and returned to our homes, then you need wonder no more. Ms Thomas has succeeded in drawing a highly believable picture of life in such a loaction as the chill of a Greek-island winter in the Med draws in, with cash and resources in short supply and the need to carefully husbanded both if they are to see the locals through the lean times of winter, without the opportunities to generate income until spring and the tourists return, then wonder no more, The background to this chilling, in more ways than one, story make it absolutely clear what you could expect if, like the central character of the story, you were to find yourself, an unknown interloper in a strange place, stranded in adversity in a place where 'hospitality' to the stranger, as it is in Greece, is mandatory.
A gripping read and one to which I know I shall return time and time again, and each time finding freash clues and threads to unravel....
Victor Hardbattle (novelist)
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