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Lädt ... The Master Bedroom (2007)von Tessa Hadley
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Given to Langegasse book exchange February 2024. This book was OK for me; not great, but neither was I in any doubt that I would finish it. My librarian had labelled this as "Romance" but I don't think that's a fair descriptor. It's better that just 'romance'. The characters have relationships that are not unrealistic, and they certainly have clear flaws and annoyances - but who doesn't? The main character, Kate, keeps saying she has finished with Jamie, but then allows him back into her life, and her bedroom. It is kind of annoying to read about people who behave this way, but I can't be too sanctimonious when I myself am guilty of similar assertions that I will never do xxxxx again, and then doing xxxxx again not that long afterwards. To get more stars from me the story and characters needed to have more depth and the context needed to be one I could better relate to. Kate's upper-middle class UK setting was just a bit remote from my lifestyle and, indeed, ambitions. I picked this off my shelf randomly, and was so happy to find the story to be set in Wales. I am heading there next month and I didn't realize how much of my TBR shelves reflected that upcoming trick. A thoughtful story about the tangle of relationships in middle age; be those with friends, lovers, parents or memories of the past. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Kate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate's forty-three and has given up her university career in London to come home and look after her mother in Firenze, their big house by a lake in Cardiff. When Kate meets David Roberts, a friend from the old days, she begins to obsess about him: she knows it's because she's bored and hasn't got anything else to do, but she can't stop. David is married, rational, dependable: the last type to want an affair. David's marriage isn't as solid as it looks, though. His wife Suzie has moved out of their bedroom, she avoids talking to David or spending time at home with him and their children, she has made new friends who smoke dope and believe in fortune telling. David takes refuge in Firenze, where he can talk to Kate about music. David's seventeen-year-old son Jamie is also drawn to the old house full of books and history. He is more like Kate than his father is, bookish and clever: he wants to find out all about life from her. He turns up one night at Firenze, drunk and desperate. Tessa Hadley's intricate, graceful novel explores the tangled web of connections between parents and children, lovers and friends; the past casts its long shadows in the present; men and women who were once confident they knew themselves, learn to attend to the changes unfolding inside them. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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