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Observer, June 3 2007
the tussle between fate and free will ... a warmly informed
portrait of modern African womanhood --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
portrait of modern African womanhood --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Financial Times, May 4 2007
a ... complex examination of potential futures ... Forster has
written a thought-provoking series of narratives --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
written a thought-provoking series of narratives --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a story about a young Gambian woman who makes choices each taking her along very different paths. For anyone from Africa who over the last 20 years has been a teenager, traveled overseas, been faced with difficult decisions on religion, marriage, family or how they fit in to a modern versus traditional culture - this book will resonate with meaning on every page. For anyone who has lived in West Africa - and especially The Gambia - this will bring back memories of food, clothes and smells. For everyone else this is simply a beautifully written book - exciting, sad and real
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I loved reading this book - for me it was about sex, food and choices. I was swept along on Ayodele's alternative life journeys - the descriptions of family life, mother-daughter conflict and sister to sister relationships are familiar to us all, as are the choices she faces and the mistakes she makes. For a first novel Reading the Ceiling is pleasingly mature and 'readable', maybe a bit verbose to start with but it's worth pressing on... As the character of Ayodele and her family and friends take over, you are caught up in the currents of their lives - a coming of age book from a new author who combines passion, earthiness and dry humour. Move over Alexander McCall Smith - this really is about ordinary life in West Africa, warts and all.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I was totally absorbed by the consequence of the choices that Ayodele made. This story reminded me of the Robert Frost poem `The road not taken'. The author allows us to walk down three different paths with the main character, Ayodele. I found myself imagining the story that I wanted for her and considering what defines a happy life. Reading the publisher's synopsis I had already decided which of her three lives would be the worst and was delighted to have by prejudices challenged. Sometimes you'll yearn for calmer seas for Ayodele's life journey but you'll love accompanying her on three very different voyages.
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Full of (sometimes painful) universal truths for women...
I wasn't sure what to expect when I read this book but I was both delighted and surprised by what I found. Unlike the lives of the women she portrays Dayo offers no compromises. Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2010 by J. Nevill
"A life beginning has many paths before it..."
On her eighteenth birthday, Ayodele decides, she will not only have a great party at the best disco in town, she will also choose a one-off mate to take her from childhood to... Read more
Published on 10 May 2009 by Friederike Knabe
Lovely and substantial
I was tired when I was reading this but it is so lovely I kept picking it up. I thought it a real treat - the three stories each offer a view into a different kind of a life. Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2008 by C. Jones
Choices and Consequences
Dayo Forster has written a novel very much along the lines of the film "Sliding Doors". Largely set in the Gambia, it follows Ayodele from the night of her 18th birthday when she... Read more
Published on 20 Oct 2008 by Sofia
amazing
this book was beautifully written i cannot reccomend it enough, one of the best books I have read in a long time.. Read more
Published on 31 May 2008 by S. Sawlani
Flat and Uninspiring
Dayo Forster's writing is lovely - simple and fuss-free, yet colorful in the way it lightly rolls along.
But the story she sets out to tell is incredibly dull. Read more
But the story she sets out to tell is incredibly dull. Read more
Published on 13 Aug 2007 by missp85
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