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Jorie and Ethan Ford are a golden couple blessed with an 11-year-old son, Collie, living a decent, quiet life in small-town Massachusetts. Ethan is a pillar of the community--a handsome, good man, whose life revolves around his family, his work as a carpenter and his roles as volunteer fireman and Little League coach. Since he first walked into her home-town, her life and her bed 13 years before, Jorie has never lost the feeling that she is special, singled out by fate to live a charmed life with a man she still desires and a son she adores. And then, on a glorious Monday morning in June, Jorie's fate turns and her life as she knows it is changed. One wonders whether the hand of fate will offer her any kind of salvation and if she can come to terms with the unimaginable.
Kat Williams, Collie's next-door neighbour and best friend is mature beyond her years. In her short life, she has had to cope with the loss of her father, a distant mother and a sister who attracts, and dispenses with, boyfriends as flies to a light, but who has taken to self-mutilation to heal her numbness. Is Kat the only one who can instinctively feel when something, or someone, is wrong? Charlotte, Jorie's best friend since childhood, knows when something is amiss, but her own terrible losses and lack of self-worth cause her to mistrust her feelings and internalise blame.
In the pages of this (relatively) short novel, Ms Hoffman manages to cover the singular emotions involved in so many different relationships--from parental, marital, sibling, friendship and even criminal-victim. The writing demonstrates enormous intelligence and endless compassion, an ability to cut through the sharp edges of humanity and look deep into a person's soul. In spite of its dark, disturbing theme, Blue Diary is an inspiring story of the enduring spirit of human love. Carey Green --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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I normally don't like stories with too many details about too many people as I generally find that they clutter a book. That was not the case in Blue Diary, rather the opposite, it showed how a lot of people were affected by Ethan/Bryon's crime and the many different ways in which the town reacted.
I particularly found the characters of Jorie and Kat compelling. Jorie was the wife of a man she knew nothing about. In a few minutes her entire world falls apart and she struggles with herself to not only justify the overpowering love she's felt for her husband for all those years, but also with her doubts about her own ability to judge someone's character. She accepts his guilt, but she still doesn't want to believe that he's a bad man. I kept wondering what she would do and it isn't until just before the end that she finds out his true character and then she makes her decision. Kat on the other hand is the one who turns Ethan in and she spends her summer holiday not only on the border between childhood and budding womanhood, but also dealing with the immense guilt she feels about ruining her best friend's life. She's also burdened by her mother's and sister's inability to deal with her father's suicide a year earlier.
This book was such a pleasant surprise and I highly recommend it.
Ethan and Jorie, the perfect couple, have been married for 13 years, and are still very much in love. Read more
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