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Cargando... Postcards from the past (2013 original; edición 2015)por Marcia Willett
Información de la obraPostcards from the Past por Marcia Willett (2013)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Family Well, you ask me, is this crime fiction or not? A crime was committed way back in the past, but that is not really the focus of the story, although it does explain why one of the characters is as he is. The focus is the mystery behind why their mother's step-son Tris, whom they haven't seen for 50 years, is coming to visit Billa and Ed. The postcards he sends them in the weeks before he arrives have obviously been carefully selected, to remind them of things they would rather forget. And they anticipate his visit with great dread. It felt a bit gentler than the books I usually read but I read it with great pleasure. The characterisation was excellent, and the suspense generated by the impending visit was well done. ‘Postcards from the Past’ is primarily about a retired brother and sister, Ed and Billa, who live in comfort in a pleasant home in Cornwall. The story starts when they receive a disturbing postcard from their step-brother Tris. They disliked him intensely as a child, and have not heard from him in about fifty years... It took me a while to get into this book. Marcia Willett has quite a gift of description, but that's not my thing so I found myself skimming a little, wondering where the story would go. But gradually, as with others by this author, I found myself feeling more and more involved. There are a lot of other characters, and I was delighted to realise that some of them were in a novel I enjoyed a couple of years ago,‘The Christmas Angel’. There are a lot of sub-plots, mostly enjoyable; I didn't quite believe in the parts that include the unpleasant Tris, but then the author's characters are usually so likeable (albeit flawed) that I suspect she has a hard time writing believable baddies. Overall, I enjoyed it and would certainly recommend it to anyone who has read ‘The Christmas Angel’. Marcia Willett’s books are always free of bad language and anything that would be rated more than PG, although it’s not a story for children. An added bonus is that characters from the novel 'The Christmas Angel' play a significant role in this book. Latest longer review here: https://suesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2021/07/postcards-from-past-by-marcia-wille... After their respective marriages end, a brother and sister return to their childhood home to a comfortable retirement near friends. Their contentment is disrupted when postcard start arriving from a half-brother they haven't seen or heard from for 50 years. A nice story about good people facing unpleasant memories. There are also some nice dogs and maybe too much description of trivial objects and peripheral characters. Library book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Beloved novelist Marcia Willett continues to captivate readers with her inspiring novels about family, friendship, and love. In Postcards from the Past Siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand old childhood home in rural Cornwall. With family and friends nearby, and their living arrangements free and easy, they seem as contented as they can be. But when postcards start arriving from a sinister figure they thought belonged well and truly in their pasts, old memories are stirred. Why is he contacting them now? And what has he been hiding all these years?"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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