- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Headline Review; New edition edition (7 Jun 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747268304
- ISBN-13: 978-0747268307
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,352,746 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Thirtysomething mother of three Lizzie Burns is trying to perform a delicate juggling act in author Maggie Graham's Sitting Among the Eskimos. Lizzie is a mature student with her third year exams looming, desperately trying to satisfy her appetite for learning while coping with the pressures of her home and her husband Colin.
I can’t find any paper to write my list on. A bloody student with no paper. Christ, you’re neither use nor ornament Lizzie. Right. Lists. I don’t know where to start. I should be writing an essay, or a poem, or a novel. How many women have written endless lists instead of masterpieces?Having married early in a community that is mystified by her need to return to education, she finds it difficult to justify herself and explain her need for something more, not least to herself. As the academic year progresses and her relationship with her husband deteriorates, she needs her wry sense of humour, her strong spirit and all the support from her friends that she can muster. Lizzie’s story has a genuine feel to it, from the descriptions of daunted "freshers" to her relationship with her elderly father, the use of conversational dialect and the feeling that Graham is drawing on personal experience. The prose however, can sometimes feel like it’s going round in circles rather than moving the plot forward, but then this itself reflects Lizzie’s trapped pattern of thinking. Never able to give herself wholly to either her studies or her family, the endless cycle of guilt continues until it looks like Lizzie may never finish at all. This is a bright novel that looks intelligently at the practical side of "having it all". --Rachel Ediss --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Thirty-something Lizzie Burns lives between two worlds: a mature student and mother in the final year of an English degree she is caught in a desperately sad, often hilariously funny cultural clash. Branded 'no right in the heid' by her resentful husband, her disgruntled father and the inhabitants of the small seaside town where she lives, she must juggle Shakespeare's tragic heroines with the demands of three unruly children; and stave off her fear that she just isn't cut out for the hallowed Faculty of Arts at all. As finals loom, Lizzie begins to feel just how easily she could lose her grip - and see her aspirations, and family, slip away from her. But this woman is not so easily defeated...
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Format:Paperback
I chose this book to study for my Higher English and it was by far theright choice! Being an evening class student, without kids and theunsupporting partner, I still found this book very easy to relate to. Thefact that the book does not contain any speech marks or inverted commasmade you feel you were actually with Lizzie as she was going through allher stresses and worries rather than it simply 'reading like a book'. Thehumour and dialect are first class and I often found myself laughingallowed while reading it. The part I enjoyed the most is that this book isbased on someone's personal experience and there was nothing in it thatsounded fake. Excellent book, thoroughly recommend for someone studyingEnglish.
Format:Paperback
This is an excellent read , funny ,engrossing and totally true to life .The regular flashes of typical west coast humour reduced this exiled Glaswegian to tears of laughter as Lizzie tells her story of surviving further education , hindered by a husband who is definitely from Mars and helped by a wonderful array of kids and friends .If you have tried to do what Lizzie did , with or without the drunken spouse , read this book!
Format:Paperback
This book is just brilliant - I read a lot of books and there are only a few which I can't put down and this was one of them. I got totally involved with Lizzie who was trying through unimaginable circumstances - like a husband and a father who did not want to know what she was doing to try to improve herself through a degree course. She finds strength and comfort in her friend Elaine and in Tony - both colleagues - but Tony is also another story ! Read the book and find out how it all sorts out - it's worth it
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