As I said, I have nothing to compare it with, but I enjoyed it. Having read this novel, I’m sure it won’t be the last of the author’s books I read.Īlthough most reviews are positive, some readers who are familiar with her previous novels felt disappointed, while others loved it as much, if not more, as her previous work. And I really liked the book cover and was intrigued by the title as well. I’ve heard of Ann Patchett but hadn’t read any of her novels until now, and this seemed like an excellent opportunity to get started.
Thanks to NetGalley and to Bloomsbury Publishing for providing me an ARC copy of this book that I freely chose to review.
necessarily heal, but as Danny slowly discovers more about himself and what happened in the past, a kind of resolution is achieved. Patchett sets up a pattern of skilful time-slips that gradually reveal the story of the siblings' lives as children and in adulthood old hurts are nursed and carried into new relationships, time doesn't. Beautiful, brilliant, vengeful Maeve and her younger brother Danny cannot forget or forgive silly social-climber Andrea who arrived to take their mother's place in the house and in their father's affections. The question of why Elna should have walked away from the grand house on the outskirts of Philadelphia bought for her by her self-made husband, is one that her children spend the years of their adult lives trying to answer. Here, the hearts she lays bare are those of Danny and Maeve, siblings whose childhood was marked by the ineradicable loss of their mother: not to death, although that's what their father would prefer them to believe, but to desertion. Ann Patchett is a writer who reveals the secrets of the human heart with such a fine scalpel you barely realise she's cut the skin.
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