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'This gripping and moving story is an honest chronicle of what happens to relationships over time, and a sharp observation of one woman's emotional life' The Times 'A perceptive and delicately written study of human relations and motivations, painful, funny and fresh, which Cobbold has structured quite ingeniously, building the story layer upon layer, rather like a painting.' Observer 'This moving tale of love lost and found centres on Grace, who by 18 has been orphaned ... this poignant novel is a reminder of how we look for love in all the wrong places' Hello
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By the time Grace is eighteen, she has been orphaned, moved countries and lost touch with her only brother. Talented, awkward and a little fierce, she can't help thinking that she's managed to lose anything she's ever loved. So she decides to revisit her past in America, and she's brought her camera - she's going to catch these memories and pin them down to keep. What she isn't expecting that summer in New Hampshire is to meet the love of her life. Some years later, now divorced and flourishing as a controversial photographer, Grace lives alone - she likes the fact that everything will be exactly where she left it. Until Grace finds that she is, quite literally, being haunted by the past...
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Extraordinary, brilliantly observed, I cried, I laughed out loud,
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This review is from: Shooting Butterflies (Paperback)
Marika Cobbold is an extraordinary writer. The subtlety and authenticity of her observances are astounding. I loved her main characters and I found the structure of the book and the weaving of the main storylines to be really effective and ultimately moving. It is a sympathetic and realistic portrayal of the relationships between men and women and the way life and love happens. I found both Grace and Louisa to be very real characters. The dialogue was realistic and often witty and wry. I laughed out loud at this book and it also made me cry without being mawkish. To me it's most extraordinary quality was how it portrayed an authentic essence of how lives are lived. Brilliant.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A weep-both-ways story.......,
By Songbird "Pink Parrot" (Midlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shooting Butterflies (Paperback)
This is a weep-both-ways story, with rare wit, making me both sad (as it touched on past events) and smiling in equal measure. We all know characters such as she describes with such brutal honesty, and they evoke such ambivalent responses...I especially appreciated her portrayal of the dysfunctional Abbot family.
The two narrators, Grace and Louisa, are kindred spirits, even though a couple of generations apart. Their present and past perceptions are woven together with skill, so as not to confuse the reader. A good writer, as it says in the text, "opens a vein" sharing the highs and lows of our human pain and passions. I'm on a quest to find authors I've never read before, and in discovering Marika Cobbold, think I've struck gold.........
5.0 out of 5 stars
A captivating story, elegant and heart warming,
By LoveReading (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shooting Butterflies (Paperback)
This is the first Marika Cobbold novel I have read, and I will certainly be back for more. Her portrayal of human character is insightful; her writing is at times dark and uncomfortable, at others light and witty. Grace, the main character, is one I will remember acutely. She's an outsider, painfully flawed, and for me, entirely likeable. If she were real, I'd want her for my friend. As a result, I was with her throughout this story, which twists and turns as it weaves in and out of the enlightening tale of Louisa, another outsider from a different generation. The two stories collide, as we somehow know they will, but the revelations are quiet ones, subtle and satisfying in their telling. A touching, memorable read.
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