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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd (9 Jun 2011)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1849833044
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849833042
  • Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 2.2 x 19.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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"It was terribly hot the summer Mr. Robertson left town." For Amy Goodrow and her mother, Isabelle, the heat of that summer is the least of their problems. Other citizens in the New England mill town of Shirley Falls are bothered by the heat and by "other things too: Further up the river crops weren't right--pole beans were small, shrivelled on the vine, carrots stopped growing when they were no bigger than the fingers of a child; and two UFOs had apparently been sighted in the north of the state." But Amy and Isabelle have a more private misery: a seemingly unbridgeable chasm has opened between this once-close mother and daughter and nothing will ever be the same again. For Amy has fallen in love with her high-school maths teacher, Mr. Robertson, who has gone way beyond the bounds of propriety by encouraging the crush. When Isabelle finds out, she is horrified to realise that her anger at him is dwarfed by her rage at her own daughter for "enjoying the sexual pleasures of a man while she herself had not."

Mother-daughter novels can, by virtue of their subject matter, often seem claustrophobic, a little overwrought; Elizabeth Strout masterfully avoids this problem by placing Amy and Isabelle in the larger context of the community they inhabit. Though her main focus is on the Goodrow women, Strout often detours into the lives and thoughts of her many secondary characters: Isabelle's coworkers Dottie Brown and Fat Bev; Amy's best friend, Stacy Burrows; Stacy's ex-boyfriend, Paul Bellows; and women from Isabelle's church such as Peg Dunlap and Barbara Rawley. She also introduces a chilling frisson of menace with the unsolved abduction of a12-year-old girl and a mysterious obscene phone caller. Like the best of Alice Hoffman, Amy and Isabelle offers up a moving yet resolutely unsentimental portrait of people coming to terms with their lives, finding unsuspected nobility in themselves and unexpected kindness in others along the way. Elizabeth Strout has written a gem of a novel. --Alix Wilber --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father she has submerged herself in the routine of her dead-end job and her unrequited love for her boss. But when Amy, frustrated by her quiet and unemotional mother, embarks on an illicit affair with her maths teacher, the disgrace intensifies the shame Isabelle feels about her own past. Throughout one long, sweltering summer as the events of the small town ebb and flow around them Amy and Isabelle exist in silent conflict until a final act leads ultimately to the understanding they both crave.
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A readable and well-paced story of a relationship crisis between a single mother and her teenage daughter. Amy has got involved with her teacher. Why is her mother so angry in this particular way?

While this is a character study novel, it does move along at a good pace. It not only shows the two main characters and their thoughts and feelings, but sets them in the context of the small town in which they live.

What secrets is Isabelle hiding, and how do they affect her feelings about Amy's behaviour?

I have seen lots of overwhelmingly positive responses from women on online reading groups to this book, suggesting it touches something in a wide range of women's experience.

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wonderful book 13 Sep 1999
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This is a wonderful book. It brought back the agony of being a teenager. I found the portrayal of the characters refreshing and unpatronising. I stumbled across this book on the recommendation of a friend who owns a booksore otherwise I would not of known of it. I'm now telling all my friends to buy it.
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very human 3 Feb 2011
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Elizabeth Strout never disappoints. She has the knack of getting right inside people's heads and characters and you see them clearly, warts and all.
She has her own style so you have to "slow down" and go at her gentle pace. One is always rewarded in full. This is the second book I have read by this author. For me her stories are compelling, moving and compassionate. I just love reading about her characters which are so real - we all know people like them!
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