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For months, the young son of Bart and Jennifer Corbin had told people that he was afraid of violence in their posh, suburban Georgia home. Then, on the morning of December 4, 2004, neighbors found seven-year-old Dalton Corbin at their front door sobbing. Until then no one could have seen what was going on behind closed doors: that beautiful Jennifer Corbin was immersed in a cyber-sex lesbian affair—or that Bart, now a wealthy dentist, had a bizarre, frightening past…
Jennifer Corbin’s death looked like a suicide. But the crime didn’t fool young Dalton, and in the coming weeks an even more horrifying story emerged: That Dr. Corbin had been left by a woman once before—and that time he may have gotten away with murder. But this time justice would be served….
Customer Reviews:
Glatt's Book Rules.......2007-07-01
Having read both John Glatt's and Ann Rule's books, I was truthfully surprised to find that I much preferred Glatt's version.
I found it to be more brutally honest, less biased, and much more compelling a read. He also goes into much more depth in many areas than Ann Rule did.
Rule's reputation may be excellent, but I feel her earlier works such as "Small Sacrifices" and "Every Breath You Take" are in a different league than her more recent.
Give this book a shot and you might find yourself surprised. (btw- the typos were not that glaringly obvious) Can't wait to read John Glatt's next book!
Let's Compare.......2007-06-18
I recently read Ann Rule's, Too Late To Say Goodbye, and now John Glatt's book, The Doctor's Wife. John Glatt told the same story in a quicker version without all the niceties. Even though he did not have access to the Barber/Tierney or Hearn families, it did not make his book any less compelling. He did have access to Edwina, Bart Corbin's sister-in-law who told her version of events, which to my untrained eye where a bit more disturbing. The Corbin family is culpable in many ways and it is clear they can not come to grip with their responsibilities. When your son, brother, or brother-in-law is involved with two women who have died by the same means, somewhere you have to start asking yourself some very hard questions about this individual versus going on blind faith. John Glatt answered one question that Ann Rule did not. Why? (The answer is disturbing in its simplicity causing the reader to want more of an interview with Bart Corbin which neither book covered.)
In John Glatt's book you will note he didn't play favorites in the retelling of events. He gave the ugly details where Ann chose to wash over them. Although her interviews with the families are interesting, heartbreaking, and very touching, I found her writing to be biased which is not what I expect from a true crime author. I am very fond of Ann Rule books but feel her latest account of this tragedy was not her best work and would recommend John Glatt's book over Ann's.
I will agree 100% with the review comments of S. McQueen regarding the book cover. I had the very comments regarding the front and back cover so I will not bore you making repeat statements, but will lead you to her review. In short, I felt the front and back cover was very poorly done to include the many typos within. Still, all-in-all a good read but with many questions left unanswered by both authors.
BOTH HAD SOMETHING TO HIDE.......2007-05-16
I just read John Glatt's excellent new true crime book, "The Doctors Wife" and found it a fascinating story about two people leading double lives. Both Dr. Bart Corbin and his wife Jennifer had something to hide. He: a suspicious and explosive past, and she: an obsession with "EverQuest", a cyber game which lead her to a compulsive trans-gendered lesbian affair, which would her enrage her husband. In the chapter titled "The Dentist from Hell", Glatt flawlessly captures the terror that patient, Sheila Shook must have felt during her ordeal in the dentist's chair watching the tightly wrapped dentist Dr. Corbin unravel into a foul mouthed out of control maniac. The description was a cinematic experience and I highly recommend this compelling story.
An excellent read.......2007-05-13
Glatt brings this case to life. I've read and enjoyed some of his other books and this one is every bit as fascinating...truly a chlling story.
True crime? No, true crap.......2007-04-29
This book is a hundred pages or so eulogy to the victims, and nothing else. The facts are poorly described, poorly detailed, and there is not even a slightest bit of an explanation of the offender's behavior made by a trained psychologist. Even if I fully understand the pain the victims family have been through, that's definitely not what I expect from a good true crime book. I wish I had not bought it...
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- The Doctor's Complicated Life
- Interesting Story, Characters are lacking
- Ending was too fast - left me hanging- unanswered questions
- Egads! It's an editorial!
- Great book, brilliant author!!
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The Doctor's Wife
Elizabeth Brundage
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A suspense novel crossed with a literary exploration of infidelity and marital rancor, Elizabeth Brundage's ambitious debut, The Doctor's Wife, provides more than the usual kick of adrenalin for readers. In a small town in upstate New York, urban transplants Annie and Michael Knowles--he is a rising OB/GYN, and she is a once-trailblazing journalist who has settled into a teaching job--hope to escape the noise and bustle of the city. But both are drawn into danger: Annie begins an affair with an infamous (and married) painter, Simon Haas, and Michael is coaxed into helping an ex-lover at her family planning clinic. He performs abortions for poor women, and tries to ignore the cars that follow him home and the increasingly threatening phone calls. ometimes Brundage perfectly navigates the twisting, overlapping elements of her complicated story line, but other times gives us too much at a time. And one of her characters, Simon's disturbed wife Lydia Haas, is so fascinating that she puts the others in the shade. Nevertheless, this is a rich first novel and a promising beginning for its author. --Regina Marler
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“Appearances are deceiving in this psychological thriller . . . a compelling read.”— The Boston Globe
“The memory starts here, in my apron pocket, with the gun.”
So begins The Doctor's Wife, a stunning debut novel about four people and the cataclysmic intersection of their lives. Michael is a rising OB/GYN at a prominent private practice in Albany, New York; he also moonlights at a local women's health clinic. But Annie, his wife, has become tired of her workaholic husband's absences, and the soccer-mom lifestyle has worn thin. She begins a passionate love affair with bad-boy, fading celebrity painter Simon Haas—an affair that quickly goes awry when Simon's wife Lydia, who is also the model upon whom he built his career, discovers the truth.
Abortion, local evangelism, marital disenchantment, and the rifts of social class: Brundage takes on the fault lines of our era with a deft hand.
“A fine debut, full of psychological suspense, plot twists and turns, malice disguised as religion, the taint of incest, and cheating spouses.”—Library Journal
“No character inhabiting this story will escape unscathed from the choices they've made... [a] well-crafted work.” —Ms. Magazine
Customer Reviews:
The Doctor's Complicated Life.......2007-09-04
This story is a psuedo-mystery novel about a family living upstate New York. The doctor of the title is an obstetrician in a religiously affiliated hospital who begins preforming aboritions at a recently opened neighborhood clinic. The doctor's wife is a journalist and a stay at home mom, who is trying to get back into her career. This novel can be seen as an interesting commentary about the violent "pro-life" movement in this country. The novel takes many unbelievable twists and turns, as the couple becomes involved in very intimate yet different ways with another local couple--one an artist and professor at a local university and the other, his wife, a deeply disturbed and beautiful woman.
The story line is a little convuluted and hard to buy into. Not a bad book, just not the greatest either. Could be a great discussion book for the right book group, however.
Interesting Story, Characters are lacking.......2007-09-04
I agree with the other reviewers. This is an interesting story and could have developed into a thrilling novel. However, the lack of depth to the characters left me disappointed.
Ending was too fast - left me hanging- unanswered questions.......2007-08-13
I did not have trouble reading this book right along as some reviewers said. However, I was a bit troubled with some of the characters. Some of the characters were very well developed, and others not - which is fine. The top tier of characters, Dr. Michael Knowles, his wife Annie Knowles, and the artist Simon Hass and his wife Lydia Hass were the major characters. I felt they were well developed and the author did a great job of entwining them and creating a great tension between them. I rate the book a 4/5 because the author did such a great job of entwining these four and creating the tension which was part sexual, part baggage from the characters' pasts, part politics, with some intrigue and mental illness thrown in for good measure. It was the minor characters and the lack of resolution for the minor characters that I struggled with. I also struggled with the denouement - the resolution to the "problems" of the story that created the tension and moved the plot. As far as Lydia Haas, she is the most highly developed character in my view, with good insight by the author of a person in mental breakdown. Lydia's character is well resolved. She gets carted off to the mental hospital and prison. However, aspects of Annie's pregnancy and her moving with her family are not fleshed out satisfactorily. Minor characters such as Dr. Celina James and her plight at her clinic are unresolved. We are not told what happens to Reverend Tim who is certainly a co-conspirator and instigator. Theresa Sawyer plays a minor role, coming in and out at various points to help Michael and then her father, Marshall Sawyer is killed but that is never resolved. We are never told what happens to Theresa or if her father's death was ever investigated. The lack of resolution for the minor characters and the short shrift of the ending is what made me rate this book down slightly.
Egads! It's an editorial!.......2007-08-07
Okay, this book screams "psychological thriller" on the OUTSIDE, but once into the chapters, what came screaming loud and clear are Brundage's politics in the form of preposterous caricatures. Just when you think the story might rise above it, her dastardly villains and shining heroes become unintentionally hilarious. I found myself predicting for fun what "dark" qualities would appear next in her characters of faith, and what shining characteristics she'd bestow on dubious icons. Surprise, our hero is your caring part time abortionist at a women's health clinic. The icing on the cake is she's no stranger to cliched romance and the drug-filled existence of artists. Oh, it's tough to be a doctor's wife.
Great book, brilliant author!!.......2007-08-04
A thrilling book that you can't put down. Buying this book it didn't turn out to be what I expected by the name of the title, it was even better. I would describe this book as a religious catholic conspiracy intertwined with a twisted physician marriage. A MUST READ BOOK!
Book Description
`Isabel Gilbert was not a woman of the world. She had read novels while other people perused the Sunday papers...she believed in a phantasmal world created out of the pages of poets and romancers.' The Doctor's Wife is Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rewriting of Flaubert's Madame Bovary in which she explores her heroine's sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life married to a good natured but bovine husband who seems incapable of understanding his wife's imaginative life and feelings. A woman with a secret, adultery, death and the spectacle of female recrimination and suffering are the elements which combine to make The Doctor's Wife a classic women's sensation novel. Yet, The Doctor's Wife is also a self-consciously literary novel, in which Braddon attempts to transcend the sensation genre. This is the only edition of a fascinating and engrossing work, and reproduces uncut the first three-volume edition of 1864.
Customer Reviews:
Isn't life like a novel in 3 volumes?.......2000-05-13
The Doctor's Wife is the 4th of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's novels which I have had the good fortune to read. There are 76 more, so, Oxford World's Classics, bring them on! In this, my favorite so far, the heroine reads novels and dreams of her life being like those heroines in her novels. She especially seems to have an affinity with Edith Dombey. Isabel marries a decent, honest, but not much of a dreamer type man. He is very sensible and loves her much, but doesn't satisfy her emotionally, while someone else does. Braddon's wonderful word paintings of the nature scenes, and her many literary allusions were what brought this book to be my favorite of hers so far. And I thought the story was also a little more interesting. I highly recommend this author to anyone who reads 19th century literature for FUN, which is why I do it.
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This is the inspiring story of a newly canonized contemporary woman. Gianna Molla (1923-1962) risked her life in order to save her unborn child. Diagnosed with uterine tumors during her fourth pregnancy, she refused a hysterectomy that would have aborted the child, and opted for a riskier surgery in an attempt to save the baby. Herself a medical doctor, Molla did give birth to the child, but succumbed to an infection.
An Italian woman who loved skiing, playing piano, attending concerts at the Milan Conservatory, Molla was a dedicated physician and devoted wife and mother who lived life to the fullest, yet generously risked death by cancer for the sake of her child.
A unique story, co-authored by her own husband, with his deeply moving personal insights of the heroic witness, love, sacrifice and joy of his saintly wife. A woman for all times and walks of life, this moving account of the multi-faceted, selfless St. Gianna Molla, who made the ultimate sacrifice to save her unborn child, will be an inspiration to all readers. Illustrated
Customer Reviews:
My favorite saint!.......2007-03-27
It is difficult for me to think of a Saint I relate to more than St. Gianna Molla. She didn't live hundreds of years ago, but rather is a modern woman. St. Gianna was a pediatric surgeon, a mother, a wife, and a holy woman who died a martyr's death.
If you are looking into buying this book, you probably know Dr. Molla's life already. In case you do not: She was a mother of three, who upon hearing of her fourth pregnancy, decided she would give up her work as a Doctor to focus all of her attention on her own family. During her pregnancy she was diagnosed with a cancer on her uterus. She had three choices. She could a) do nothing and have the baby and almost certainly die, b) remove most of the tumor and keep the baby. This would be VERY risky with lots of potential complications, but there was a greater chance she would survive. Or she could c) do what the doctor's advised and terminate the pregnancy as a result of a more radical surgery to remove her entire illness.
She chose option (b). She didn't seek martyrdom. She wanted to live and raise her family. She could have chosen (c) if she wanted. The abortion would not have been direct. Rather, it would have been an indirect consequence of a surgery designed to save the mother's life. Thus, under Catholic teaching, the operation would have been morally acceptable.
However, St. Gianna was a hero of the faith. Rather than take the easy road, she decided to do what she could to save her own life, while at the same time defending the young life within her.
St. Gianna died after childbirth. She got to hold her baby, and name her "Gianna." This Gianna, a Doctor now herself, was present along with her father at her mother's canonization. St. Gianna Molla is a hero for life. She is a Saint whose witness we need now more than ever.
I recommend this book completely. Reading about this saint will enrich your life.
Good Short Read.......2006-05-18
I liked this book, it was a good short read. It gives the history of St. Gianna and her husband and their families. The reason this only got 4 stars was because it didn't explain the miracles that got St. Gianna her sainthood. So if that is what you are looking for, this book is not it. But if you are looking for the history of St. Gianna, you will be pleased.
Fantastic Book on an Awe Inspiring Woman.......2005-11-21
This is an amazing book on St. Gianna Molla. It is written in part by her husband [who is still alive and well in Italy] through interviews with Elio Gurriero and includes some of St. Gianna's own writings.
I found this book very touching and inspiring. Most of us know of St. Gianna because of her death - as a martyr for Life as it were - but this book introduces us to the very real, loving, devout, strong woman that Gianna was in life. How wonderful to read about her youth, her courtship and marriage, her love for her small children, her devotion to her patients, and her heroic decision to risk death so that her baby could survive.
This book was easy to read and entertaining while really packing a spiritual punch. I got so much from it and feel like a better person for having read it.
Customer Reviews:
Fantastic story.......1999-12-12
No one writes romance like Cheryl St. John. Her talent is incomparable. She never fails to make me love her characters, they're always sympathetic, always human, always real. Caleb Chaney ought to have won a KISS award from Romantic Times. Men don't come any more heroic than this. I was hooked on page one and couldn't put it down until it was finished. I sobbed like a baby, and when it was over, I felt as if I'd won a prize, it was so thrilling to see Ellie get the life she deserved. I can't wait for Cheryl's next book.
I wouldn't call it the best book, but it is not the worst.......1999-12-04
I think the title conveys my feelings on this book. I didn't particularly think it was the best book I have ever read, but it was not the worst. I thought the book was good, but that it just dragged on and on. I am not sure if it was the writing or what...... It is o.k.,if you have a lot of time to spend reading, but not for a quick read. It is emotional, but not overly so.
Cheryl St John immerses you in the lives of Caleb and Ellie.......1999-10-28
Cheryl St John has once again proven to her readers that it doesn't take a super hero or heroine to link us with our deepest emotions. In Caleb and Ellie's story, we are drawn into their lives, including their pain, sorrow, and dawning love. Be ready to settle back into your comfy chair, grab a box of tissues and spend the afternoon in sheer pleasure as Cheryl unfolds the tragedy of Ellie's young life, and how she overcomes issues that face many women yet today. I'm positive that you'll feel the same as I do! I want to meet Caleb and Ellie just to tell them both how much I care.
Under The Covers Book reviews:.......1999-10-14
The sexual tension between Ellie and Caleb is taut as a bowstring and quivers for release. THE DOCTOR'S WIFE reads like a mystery. The action seems relentless, making it imperative that we turn the pages faster and faster. Ms. St.John gifts her fans with a marvelous new book that will leave them sighing and eager for more.
I loved Cheryl's latest book!.......1999-09-25
Cheryl St.John does more than give readers great stories and fascinating characters; she gives them a glimpse of her heart. She writes about life. About people who could be our friends, neighbors or relatives. We rejoice in their triumphs and share their sorrows. With each story we are given a taste of life, tragedy and personal victories. We laugh, we cry and relate to her characters and know that life, no matter how bad, can be wonderful when we are loved and love in return. THE DOCTOR'S WIFE is filled with compassion, sacrifice, love and trust. Once you read it, you'll never forget Ellie and Caleb and the miraculous love they find.
Average customer rating:
- A Welcome Read
- bit too simple
- Very informative, about family and secret feelings
- Please ignore the review above
- Very readable novel raising interesting moral questions
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The Doctor's Wife
Sawako Ariyoshi
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Book Description
The role of the Japanese woman in modern society still retains many of the characteristics that it had in the late eighteenth century, when this novel takes place. In those days, the life of a woman, whether married or single, was one of unending drudgery and toil. Reward or recognition came
only indirectly, through the success of the male members of the family.
Thus, this novel is really two stories: on the one hand, the successful medical career of Hanaoka Seishu, the first doctor in the world to perform surgery for breast cancer under a general anesthetic; on the other hand, the lives of his wife and his mother, who supported him with stoic resignation,
even to the extent of finally volunteering to be used as guinea pigs in his experiments.
Kae, the wife, joins the household of the local doctor as the bride of his son, Hanaoka Seishu, who is still away pursuing his medical studies in Kyoto. Her mother-in-law, Otsugi, is both beautiful and extremely proud of the tradition of the doctor's family. Though their relationship is one of
affection at first, it declines into tension and eventually into bitter competitiveness and hatred, fostered by the claustrophobic social customs of the time. The two women-the wife who struggles to adapt to a new household and gain the affection of her unfamiliar husband, and the over possessive
mother-in-law dedicated to the fulfillment of her son's ambitions-vie with one another to serve one man. Kae suffers the most, for the new anesthetic that the doctor tries on her has devastating results.
Readers of The Doctor's Wife will find a tender and compassionate tale about a woman of great strength and courage, as well as an impelling account of Japanese society and the role of women in it.
Customer Reviews:
A Welcome Read.......2006-02-16
The book is set during the Tokugawa period of Japan and depicts the struggles in life of a woman named Kae. It may be thought that this book lacks a dynamic story, the idea is not because of some flaw in the author, but the fact that it is a historical fiction piece which tells of the first recorded medical operation of breast cancer under a general anesthetic. The author does a very good job at keeping up with the known facts which to some unenlightened peoples may seem as unattractive.
Aside from this notion, the book is by no means dull. It contains the tragic vie for attention between mother and daugter-in-law while touching on the issue of sexual prejudice that is still present in today's society. All this while at the same time shaping the tale of a Doctor's goal to set a medical landmark.
A very good book to learn some history while being inthralled with the story.
bit too simple.......2003-03-04
I think her writing style is interestingly spare and understated, but that the novel overall suffers from being too obvious and pat...vaguely interesting in some ways, but not necessarily a good book.
Very informative, about family and secret feelings.......2002-04-29
An atypical threesome relationship: the husband, his wife and his mother. In a culture where, not dissimilarly to the British culture, it is despicable to show your inner feelings. The wife and the mother quickly become competitive, but never admit it, hence the tragic ending.
A warning to our modern society, where, partly in response to the high divorce rate, many young adults tend to stick closer to their parents: this may become the cause, rather than the solution, of divorce problems.
Although set in the Japan of one century ago, this book is still actual. Increasingly, Japanese women flee marriage because she who marries a first-born son (this is the case for most young men, given the size of modern families), is expected to go and live with his parents.
Please ignore the review above.......2001-04-02
The review above has been inadvertently transposed from another work and bears NO RELATIONSHIP to the book shown.
Very readable novel raising interesting moral questions.......2000-04-03
This review is for The Doctor's Wife by Brian Moore and has been inadvertently transferred to this novel in translation by Amazon. Dealing with themes of politics, sex and religion this novel immediately excites one's attention as none of these are matters for polite conversation. Are they? Apart from his craftsmanship as a writer, the novel seems much shorter than its 230 pages perhaps because of its unity of time and place and action. As an artifact I really liked it as I identified with young Tom Lowry (26) in his affair with Mrs Sheila Redden(37)and found the sexual congress between them quite well done - erotic it was. Where more romantic than Paris and Nice? Mrs Redden is returning to her honeymoon hotel of many years before where her husband is to join her when his duties as a medical officer in Belfast permit. She is unfulfilled, shy perhaps, sensitive of course, likes the arts including romantic literature. Her husband, whom she perceives as boring, is something of a workaholic no doubt due to the demands of a practice in Belfast, and is a practical, unromantic, no nonsense individual who doesn't understand his wife, or perhaps, appreciate her. Her son is an ungrateful 14 year old boy. Mrs Redden precedes her husband on the holiday back to the past, meets handsome American Tom Lowry, and before you can say "Have you got a diaphragm" they're going at it hammer and tongs, so to speak. The sex is good, very good, and Mrs Redden decides she wants less of her husband and more of Tom. In the event she decides to leave her husband and her son. The husband in his frustration and anger turns up at the lover's hotel and commits a pretty horrible act of violence on Mrs Redden. And that pretty much is it, in terms of artifact and enjoyable read. But it does throw up some interesting moral questions. Is it enough to abandon a marriage because you are bored with it and strike out on your own to get "fulfilled"? If the good Doctor had not committed the act of violence after she'd decided to leave him, there's no doubt I think that the reader would have felt much less sympathy for Mrs Redden. In short, there's enough titillation and enough intelligent consideration of a number of issues to make this a worthwhile read.
Book Description
Awaiting her husband's arrival on holiday in France, Sheila Redden,quiet, middle-aged doctor's wife, suddenly finds herself caught up in a passionate affair with a young American, ten years her junior, this extraordinary powerful portrayal of a woman transformed by love was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Customer Reviews:
Fascinating Story.......2006-05-30
What a wonderful story! I was amazed that the author is a man. The character of Sheila Redden is so believable and your sympathy is with her even though she is about to leave her son. Ordinarily that would lose me as far as any compassion is concerned. I really enjoy Mr. Moore's style of writing and plan on reading all of his other books.
Moore is the Picasso of the modern romance novel!.......2002-05-04
Wow! What a book! I don't usually read romance novels, and I'm still unsure as to what compelled me to buy this one. But whatever the reason, I'm glad I did!
Had someone handed me this book to read, stripped of its cover thus leaving me no clue as to whom had written it, never in a million years would I have guessed the author to be a man!
Brian Moore should be commended for his impressive ability at bringing to life the totally believable female character portrayed in this book. Few male writers can successfully execute on paper such a vivid and candid depiction of a middle-aged woman in turmoil--the revealing of her innermost thoughts about herself and the world around her as she grapples with the sensitive issues of aging and sexuality.
Anticipating her husband's arrival in France to celebrate their second honeymoon, Sheila Redden dreams of rekindling the passions and excitement once present in their stale, sixteen-year marriage. However, disillusioned by his many excuses for not showing up to meet her, Sheila soon becomes painfully aware that her husband's busy schedule with tending patients takes precedence over her happiness. Lonely and deeply hurt, Sheila does what I guess many emotionally-neglected wives would do--she has an affair. I don't think that she intentionally went out looking to get laid--it was just something that happened quite naturally given the vulnerable state of mind she was in at the time. What starts out as a seemingly innocent enough chat with a handsome young American in a Paris diner, suddenly magnifies into something far more serious. Riddled with guilt, yet driven by the desire to walk away from her loveless marriage in favor of a more independent life, Sheila confesses to her husband (over the phone!) that she is in love with another man. What follows Sheila's confession is an unexpected train of events that will drastically change the lives of all of those she touches.
As I've said before--Wow! What a book! This is one of those
'once upon a time' fairy tale romances, but one in which no one at the end rides off into the sunset happily ever after.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to just kick back and enjoy a good ole' fashioned, brilliantly-written romance novel. But be forewarned--some of the lovemaking scenes are quite explicit.
TWO THUMBS UP FOR THIS THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE NOVEL!
Heartfelt reading.......2000-04-08
Wonderfully romantic reading, but not sappy or "unreal"......I loved this book from page one until the end.........a woman's awakening to her life. Highly recommend it.
A disturbingly real tale of a woman's awakening........1999-07-09
Smart, quiet, shy, too tall, Sheila had never been on her own. She went from dependence on her parents to dependence on a husband. After 15 years of marriage, a long-planned 2nd honeymoon sets into motion the chain of events which leads her away from her safe, ordered, boring existence, and awakens a desire for autonomy.
Moore's cool, precise, detached prose steers the reader through an emotional storm. If anything, this coolness enhances the intensely erotic scenes in the story. As always with Brian Moore, the tale seems to be driven by its own internal workings, and the personalities of its characters. Yet the ending is neither staid nor predictable. You will not be able to put this book down easily, or to put it out of your mind until long after you have finished reading it.
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