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Gorgeous, world-famous cellist Evie Silverman is classical-lite through and through. Real musicians despise her. Her talent has been promoted way beyond its value because - apparently - everyone loves a blonde girl in lipstick who can do interesting things between her thighs. She's played for the President of the United States. She's played at No 10 Downing Street. And tonight she's playing for Royalty.
But tonight she's also going to change her life. Tonight she's going to leave her husband. Tonight, for the first time in fifteen years, she's going to stand on her own two feet. For tomorrow begins her new life - starting with a trip to New York.
It all too soon becomes apparent that breaking the rules - and escaping from your past - isn't what it's cracked up to be...
But tonight she's also going to change her life. Tonight she's going to leave her husband. Tonight, for the first time in fifteen years, she's going to stand on her own two feet. For tomorrow begins her new life - starting with a trip to New York.
It all too soon becomes apparent that breaking the rules - and escaping from your past - isn't what it's cracked up to be...
About the Author
Emily Barr has written columns and travel pieces for the Observer and the Guardian for several years, and her previous novels BACKPACK, BAGGAGE and CUBAN HEELS were critically acclaimed. She lives in the south of France with her husband and two sons.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I thought this was a brilliant book and I thought the plot and subplots were very well thought out. I was also really pleased that the ending was so good and I didn't find it abrupt at all. I don't mind the fact that it ended happily, as it's nice to feel good sometimes! I found the book very well balanced as it was light in parts and very emotional in others. The emotional parts were so convincing that they even made me cry at times!
I disagree with the reader who says that the changing of the name "Elizabeth" to "Darcey" was silly. In fact, I found it made the story better as it is exactly the kind of thing that I could imagine happening and made me feel more sorry for Evie that her daughter's name had been changed in such a way.
I started off not particularly liking Evie either, but like most bad people she also had a good side and the fact that she had her flaws made the book all the more convincing in my opinion.
I thought the characters were good, even those we didn't get to know so well, as they just gave a change from constantly reading about the main characters in the book. They also made it all the more realistic, as we don't get to know everyone well in real life either!
I highly recommend Atlantic Shift and will definitely be reading more by this author.
I disagree with the reader who says that the changing of the name "Elizabeth" to "Darcey" was silly. In fact, I found it made the story better as it is exactly the kind of thing that I could imagine happening and made me feel more sorry for Evie that her daughter's name had been changed in such a way.
I started off not particularly liking Evie either, but like most bad people she also had a good side and the fact that she had her flaws made the book all the more convincing in my opinion.
I thought the characters were good, even those we didn't get to know so well, as they just gave a change from constantly reading about the main characters in the book. They also made it all the more realistic, as we don't get to know everyone well in real life either!
I highly recommend Atlantic Shift and will definitely be reading more by this author.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What a deeply silly book. I laughed out loud for all the wrong reasons. Barr's previous works have been kind of 'chick lit thrillers' in that they are very plot driven, with delicious twists and reveals that keep the reader's unblinking interest.
But Atlantic Shift is just plotting gone mad. Far too much happens, and none of it is described in any depth at all. Our main character is a total cow one minute, and the next she's so sweet, she's forming deep relationships with people as random as her best friends fertility doctor.
There are far too many characters (her flatmates' parents? Why would we care??) and none of them ever really make it up off the page.
The dialogue is jarringly bad, with all of the characters delivering information in the style of a cheap soap opera. A character will use silly intensifiers such as 'enormously pretty' and then on the next page another character will use the same word.
The books premise isn't anything like what you are led to expect from the blurb, and the whole classical musician stuff seems silly and made-up.
There are so many plot lines all careering along so quickly that the ending is basically a car crash of an 'epilogue' that offers zero insight into why anybody's character acted in the way they did.
And how did Evie manage to be such a cow, when both her sets of parents are so sympathetic? And how did she manage to go 15 years without seeing her father and her step mum, when they are so loving and nice?
And why did Jack fly across the Atlantic, only to cheerfully walk away after a five minute conversation that could have been conducted by telephone? Silly, silly, silly.
This book encompasses issues including celebrity, music, stalkers, infertility, underage pregnancy, alcoholism, suicide, stalking, domestic violence, adoption, drink driving, tabloid journalism and god knows what else. It's a big messy hotch potch in which minor characters become major with no explanation, and major characters drop off the page in similar fashion.
I read it to the end to see if it would get any better but it didn't.
Did Emily Barr, the author of Baggage, actually write this nonsense? I struggle to comprehend it.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I don't know what it was about Atlantic Shift, but it didn't manage to captivate me as much as Barr's other novels did. I couldn't get as involved with the characters, and unlike with Baggage, Cuban Heels and the brilliant Backpack I found myself less and less interested in what was going to happen next. Nevertheless, Barr's excellence with regard to description and detail was still there to make Atlantic Shift a pleasant enough read.
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Another great book by Emily Barr
I am a big fan of Emily Barr - some may call it an obsession. I started reading her books about 6 months ago and have barely read anything from another author since, I just enjoy... Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2010 by K. Salmon
Did Emily Barr really write this?
I totally agree with the reviewers who asked the question "did Emily Barr write this one?" I too bought it because I had really enjoyed her other novels but this one was... Read more
Published on 27 Nov 2009 by jkennedy
Not as good as it could have been
I'm a big fan of Emily Barr, but think that Atlantic Shift was pretty Hit or Miss. Yes, there were too many characters rattling along together, and Jack - the dumped husband - was... Read more
Published on 26 Nov 2009 by Lara Croft
One step up from chick lit
Having read 'Cuban Heels' and 'Baggage', I chose this because of the author. And whilst this is good, it felt a lot `fluffier' than her previous work. Read more
Published on 15 Dec 2007 by NB
Too much plot but enjoyable
You have to read this book fairly quickly as there is so many intertwining stories that you would very easily forget who was who and what they were doing to each other!! Read more
Published on 10 April 2007 by Janie U
Not a good read.
I was awfully disapointed by this book, compared to Barr's work before it. I bought this purely on her name, not the story line, thinking Id love it anyway. Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2007 by F
Another great read from Barr!
Another great read from Emily Barr. Fresh and original, also pretty funny - but most of all a real page-turner. Read more
Published on 8 July 2005 by Jessica
Good set up, big let down
I, too, found this a compelling read for the first two thirds of the novel, but agree with the reader from Godalming about the unlikely plot and character 'developments' of the... Read more
Published on 18 Jun 2005
Really liked this book
Bought this at an airport because a friend recommended it to me for holiday reading, and thought it was great - finished it in two days and did not put it down until then. Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2005
Rather average read
Emily Barr can do better than this. The first two-thirds of the novel are very well set up, but the last third is rather poor, I'm afraid. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2005
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