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Art historian Gillon has left South Carolina to come to London and escape the demands of her wealthy, socially conventional family. She moves into a flat with Tilly and her long term photographer boyfriend Henry - who decides to go to South Carolina where he is seduced by the charms of Charleston and Gillon's family.
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'[Trollope writes] with such elegant precision - revelatory and ambiguous at just the right moments'
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Thick with relationships going not quite wrong and not quite right - but how much of this stuff does one really want to read? All with such faultless good manners too - so resolutely non-violent and middle-class. One longs for a bit of rough treatment, or for someone to behave really badly, for a few unconscionable lies, a dark and dirty secret here or there. No, Joanna's okay in small doses, a bit of calm in a stormy world, but without any sort of storm there's just too much calm.
22 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I approached 'Girl From The South' expecting a warm, thought provoking tale, much as I had expected (and found) in other Joanna Trollope novels I had read. Far from inhabiting that middle ground between cosy escapism and genuine meaning, 'Girl From The South' tries too hard to capture the rootlessness and varying 'emotional ambitions' of its cast of 30-somethings, and ends up clunky and brittle. Disappointingly so, since Joanna Trollope's basic premise - that life can only really move forward when we acknowledge the past - has the potential to really strike a few nerves, had the predicament been embodied by characters rather less formulaic.
I'm not sure what Trollope is trying to do with this novel, although it looks somewhat like an attempt to break a mold of some kind. I like her critique of the South and her reappraisal of its values, the need for both stability and change; I like her engaging and often pithy style, and at times - the closing few pages, in particular - sharp sightedness into the contemporary malaise of her central characters. I am only disappointed that, for my part, it inspired little more than indifference.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was disappointed with this story. I picked it up to take into hospital with me as a little light reading was required but somehow or other I found the characters confusing and didn't really care enough about any of them to finish the book.
I believe this view concurs with other reviewers who showed more stamina than me and read to the end.
Normally reliable I recommend new readers to Joanna Troloppe to try any of her other books first.
I believe this view concurs with other reviewers who showed more stamina than me and read to the end.
Normally reliable I recommend new readers to Joanna Troloppe to try any of her other books first.
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Disappointing in several ways.
I was disappointed by this book because I usually really enjoy Joanna Trollope novels, and also because I was looking forward to immersing my brain in lavish descriptions of the... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Expat Mommy
Relationship upheavals
Tilly and Henry have been together for 10 years, but Tilly is frustrated by Henry's lack of commitment to taking the relationship any further. Read more
Published 22 months ago by SusieH
not good
This is not one I would recommend, slow poor story. characters, good but they didn't do anything! - thought it would be a good ending and that would clear up my confusion of the... Read more
Published on 22 Nov 2009 by J. Browne
Complete garbage
i had never read a book by this author before, and I never will again. No characterisation and a sluggish plot that renders the reader nigh on comatose.
Published on 10 Aug 2009 by S. ALLMAN
A very enjoyable book
Having been to both Charleston and London several times I really enjoyed reading the descriptions of the two cities. Read more
Published on 21 April 2003 by Heidi L. Marshall
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