Bowering Sivers

Ruth is 44, recovering from an unexpected heart attack. She is single, living with her widowed mother, with whom she has a strange and co-dependant relationship. The heart attack is the catalyst for some re-thinking of her future, and an attempt to get out of the rut in which she finds herself. She's aided in this by a rather ascerbic - but charming - director called Ian, and hampered by her spoilt brother Matthew.

I liked Ruth, but found the other characters rather typecast. The story flowed well - I kept reading to find out what happened - but I could see the climax of the book coming. The ending then happened rather quickly, and much too neatly. I like threads being tidied up, but these didn't hang together. Both Matthew and Ruth appeared to change character in the final pages,leaving me a little bewildered.

Not bad for light reading, for anyone with any interest in the theatre; very little bad language and a couple of mild sex scenes. Three and a half stars, really.… (mehr)