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Cargando... I Couldn't Love You More (2021)por Esther Freud
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Londen, jaren ‘60. Een tiener kiest voor een leven met een Franse kunstenaar en zet zo het leven van haar moeder op zijn kop ( ) I normally love Esther Freud's writing - she's up there as one of my favourite authors - but this book was so poor compared to her other novels. I don't know if her publishers put the squeeze on her or something, but this is such a mass market read with a cliched storyline centred around a woman forced into an Irish convent for unmarried mothers and the impact on her mother's and daughter's lives. There were none of the hallmarks of Freud's usual turn of phrase, and the storyline was horribly confused - halfway through and I still wasn't sure who was who, and from the reviews on Amazon I wasn't the only one. 2.5 stars - hugely disappointing. I hope this is not the kind of writing we're going to see from Freud going forward. This is a tender and heart-rending tale that follows three generations of mothers and daughters from 1939 to 1991. Their sorrow from their loss of contact with their daughters is delicately and movingly revealed as their stories unfold in alternating chapters following Aoife, her daughter Rosaleen and in turn, her daughter Kate. But the love is not only shared between the daughters, as there are some men in their lives who play key roles in giving them help at crucial times. The stories moves from Ireland to London and then to Sussex and the lives and regrets of the three are hauntingly described in Esther Freud’s deeply enchanting and compelling writing, which reverberates long after the final page is turned. This was so disjointed that I really couldn't get into the plot although it did have potential. Chapters not only switched in time frame, but between main characters, and new characters would just suddenly appear without any background (sometimes that would come and sometimes I wondered "who was that.") Aoife Kelly's oldest daughter Rosaleen, disappears from Ireland looking for more excitement. She soon has an affair with an older man, a sculptor named Felix. She becomes pregnant and is taken to a horrible Catholic home for unwed mothers where she must work and her baby is taken from her. The "baby" Kate is adopted into a loving family but she is always wondering about her real mother. Kate is married to an alcoholic and is attempting to raise her daughter. This story of three generations of women all searching for their daughters or mothers could have been so much better, but characters either seemed all good or all bad and the plot was told in such a rambling way. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past. It's London, 1960, and Aoife Kelly--once the sparkling object of young men's affections--runs pubs with her brusque, barking husband, Cash. Their courtship began in wartime London, before they returned to Ireland with their daughters in tow. One of these daughters--fiery, independent-minded Rosaleen--moves back to London, where she meets and begins an affair with the famous sculptor Felix Lehmann, a German-Jewish refugee artist over twice her tender eighteen years. When Rosaleen finds herself pregnant with Felix's child, she is evicted from her flat, dismissed from her job, and desperate to hide the secret from her family. Where, and to whom, can she turn? Meanwhile, Kate, another generation down, lives in present-day London with her young daughter and husband, an unsuccessful musician and destructive alcoholic. Adopted and floundering to find a sense of herself in the midst of her unhappy marriage, Kate sets out to track down her birth mother, a search that leads her to a Magdalene Laundry in Ireland and the harrowing history that it holds"--FantasticFiction.com. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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