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Shooting Butterflies [Kindle Edition]

Marika Cobbold (Author)

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Length: 324 pages
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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' 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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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 532 KB
Print Length: 324 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0747568103
Publisher: Bloomsbury (15 May 2011)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B004Z60EB0
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #22,590 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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Extraordinary, brilliantly observed, I cried, I laughed out loud 18 Mar 2010

By Alison Wells

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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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More than meets the eye. 7 April 2012

By Barbara Spencer

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I've been staring at an empty screen now for half an hour, wondering how I could best put in words why I loved this book so much but I find it very hard. What did come to mind was, had Tolstoy been a woman born in Sweden his name would have been Marika Cobbold and he'd have written shooting butterflies.

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A weep-both-ways story....... 7 Mar 2011

By Songbird

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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.........

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Yet another wonderful book by Marika Cobbold

Reading a book by Marika Cobbold is more than just reading, it's living the experience. Shooting Butterflies is the story of people from complicated family backgrounds trying to... Read more

Published 19 days ago by sue

A captivating story, elegant and heart warming

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... Read more

Published 15 months ago by LoveReading

Chosen at random.

This was the first book I've read by this Author.

I found the story to be a like a slice of cake. Each chapter built layer upon layer as the story progresses. Read more

Published 20 months ago by B. Robinson

What a great title!

What a great title! Regrettably, the novel disappoints. Our book club felt the author produced a confused structure around the admirable character portrayals of Grace and Louisa. Read more

Published on 16 May 2007 by Book club reader

Shooting butterflies

Cobbold is an extraordinary writer. There were moments in this book when I felt as if she knew my thoughts. Read more

Published on 22 Feb 2004 by "marthahalliwell"

A terrific new novel from a writer well worth waiting for.

Marika Cobbold's brilliantly witty and blackly comic writing manages both to point fun at the absurdities of life and, at the same time, to celebrate them. Read more

Published on 16 Feb 2003 by E. M. Buchan

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