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`Simply sensational ... Kennedy is an absolute master at love stories with heart-stopping twists' --The Times
`Kennedy, like William Boyd and Paul Watkins, has always managed to walk that precarious tight-rope of credibility between the twin towers of popular and literary fiction' --Independent on Sunday
`Crush[es] any doubts about this prolific author's status as a stylish popular novelist and a classy purveyor of the gripping yarn.'
--Irish Times
`Kennedy is an absolute master at love stories with heart-stopping twists, but even if you know this and read along expecting the unexpected, the denouement will have you feeling about as intense as printed words can make you... With its glorious evocation of a love affair at its highest height tempered by a wonderful supporting cast of Berlin's distressed beauties and freaks - the people and the buildings - 'The Moment' is simply sensational.' --The Times
`Epic novels, covering decades, great emotional drama and deep political schisms, have become an all too rare thing - certainly those that really zing with life and painful truths. So thank goodness for Douglas Kennedy. An American with a great European literary sensibility, he has produced a number of best-sellers marrying recent big historical events with finely-tuned tales of personal relationships and desires. The Moment, aside from being his tenth novel, is his most ambitious to date and most deeply felt. One way or another, writers rob from what is real and The Moment feels strikingly real... I used to think characters made novels, not settings. However, in The Moment, Douglas Kennedy has created a love story that's very much a product of a particular time and place, and yet the conclusion is beautifully understanding and universal.' --Daily Mirror
`Kennedy, like William Boyd and Paul Watkins, has always managed to walk that precarious tight-rope of credibility between the twin towers of popular and literary fiction... Kennedy is particularly adept at capturing the ugliness of modern life... He captures with acuity men's self-destructive nature and the eddies in which husbands, fathers and sons find themselves caught ... A great read.' --Independent on Sunday
`Douglas Kennedy's 10th novel, The Moment, a tome running to almost 500 pages, is weighty enough to crush any doubts about this prolific author's status as a stylish popular novelist and a classy purveyor of the gripping yarn... It is the quality of evaluation, this conscious appraisal of unforeseen loss, of gallant naivety, of the bullish youthful belief in the right to happiness, that sets Kennedy's work apart from that of many other popular novelists... It is a gripping read and an honest attempt to address human frailty while playing out our minor destinies in the face of great love and desperate loss.' --The Irish Times
`Douglas Kennedy is back with his 10th novel, The Moment. In this gripping love story, a man receives a package from a woman with whom he had a love affair during the Cold War.'
--Good Housekeeping
`A morally complex page-turner.' --Red Red Red Red magazine
`The two central characters of Thomas and Petra are wonderful. They both come across as living, breathing individuals. This is a beautifully written book which is all about an enduring love, despite what some would describe as truly insurmountable circumstances. Highly recommended.' --thebookbag.co.uk
`Kennedy, like William Boyd and Paul Watkins, has always managed to walk that precarious tight-rope of credibility between the twin towers of popular and literary fiction' --Independent on Sunday
`Crush[es] any doubts about this prolific author's status as a stylish popular novelist and a classy purveyor of the gripping yarn.'
--Irish Times
`Kennedy is an absolute master at love stories with heart-stopping twists, but even if you know this and read along expecting the unexpected, the denouement will have you feeling about as intense as printed words can make you... With its glorious evocation of a love affair at its highest height tempered by a wonderful supporting cast of Berlin's distressed beauties and freaks - the people and the buildings - 'The Moment' is simply sensational.' --The Times
`Epic novels, covering decades, great emotional drama and deep political schisms, have become an all too rare thing - certainly those that really zing with life and painful truths. So thank goodness for Douglas Kennedy. An American with a great European literary sensibility, he has produced a number of best-sellers marrying recent big historical events with finely-tuned tales of personal relationships and desires. The Moment, aside from being his tenth novel, is his most ambitious to date and most deeply felt. One way or another, writers rob from what is real and The Moment feels strikingly real... I used to think characters made novels, not settings. However, in The Moment, Douglas Kennedy has created a love story that's very much a product of a particular time and place, and yet the conclusion is beautifully understanding and universal.' --Daily Mirror
`Kennedy, like William Boyd and Paul Watkins, has always managed to walk that precarious tight-rope of credibility between the twin towers of popular and literary fiction... Kennedy is particularly adept at capturing the ugliness of modern life... He captures with acuity men's self-destructive nature and the eddies in which husbands, fathers and sons find themselves caught ... A great read.' --Independent on Sunday
`Douglas Kennedy's 10th novel, The Moment, a tome running to almost 500 pages, is weighty enough to crush any doubts about this prolific author's status as a stylish popular novelist and a classy purveyor of the gripping yarn... It is the quality of evaluation, this conscious appraisal of unforeseen loss, of gallant naivety, of the bullish youthful belief in the right to happiness, that sets Kennedy's work apart from that of many other popular novelists... It is a gripping read and an honest attempt to address human frailty while playing out our minor destinies in the face of great love and desperate loss.' --The Irish Times
`Douglas Kennedy is back with his 10th novel, The Moment. In this gripping love story, a man receives a package from a woman with whom he had a love affair during the Cold War.'
--Good Housekeeping
`A morally complex page-turner.' --Red Red Red Red magazine
`The two central characters of Thomas and Petra are wonderful. They both come across as living, breathing individuals. This is a beautifully written book which is all about an enduring love, despite what some would describe as truly insurmountable circumstances. Highly recommended.' --thebookbag.co.uk
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Leaving the World comes a tragic love story set in Cold War Berlin.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When a middle aged divorced novelist writes a novel about a middle aged divorced novelist writing a novel... It's probably time to step back for a moment and think about other things.
I am a big Kennedy fan, and this is still a compelling book, but it's nowhere near his earlier work. I always think novelists writing about characters writing novels is a self-indulgent turn-off, and this book is no exception.
I am a big Kennedy fan, and this is still a compelling book, but it's nowhere near his earlier work. I always think novelists writing about characters writing novels is a self-indulgent turn-off, and this book is no exception.
25 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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Even as a keen Kennedy fan, I've got to say that this novel just doesn't make the grade; it offers one dull, tedious, reading experience. Set in the 1980s before the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, it is obvious upon reading 'Moments' that Kennedy had done his research - maybe too much so. Rather than evoking the place/era through description, he constantly drops in the names of real German streets and locations, almost as if he had Google Earth up on his computer as he wrote the novel. It took a couple of hundred pages for the story's main protaganists to meet, leaving me to wonder at some points if the story was ever going to get going and gather pace. The European characters were also rather cliched, with most bars being filled with cynical, smoking, sardonic patrons. The passionate romance at the centre of the story was equally unoriginal in its depiction - with the couple alternately 'falling' or 'tumbling' into bed. I suspect that as Kennedy is one of the highest earners in his publishing house's stable, they are a little reluctant to edit him quite as much as they would with a new writer. The result is a rambling effort, which never quite engages. He can definitely do better than this! If you're new to Kennedy, save your cash and get one of his earlier efforts.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Really enjoy reading Douglas Kennedy and absolutely loved this book. A few people had told me that it was a slow beginning but I have to disagree as I found myself completely absorbed from the start. This story is about a very intense love affair between two people living in Berlin pre the wall coming down. It was not only of great historical interest but also a very good insight into the lives of so many people who were affected by the cold war. An excellent and well written novel.
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One of the 5 best books that I have read in my life!
I have read every Douglas Kennedy book that there is. This is his best. A romantic novel with a very gritty feel. Read more
Published 9 days ago by Kennedy Fan
Marvellous book - just persist with it at the beginning
Like many of the reviewers, I eagerly await each Douglas Kennedy book and have never yet been disappointed. Read more
Published 20 days ago by cahodgson
Did Kennedy swallow a thesaurus?
I love Douglas Kennedy books. Sadly, this isn't anything like his usual work. Wordy and overwritten, it reads like a first novel by some intense wannabe writer. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Lucy Liu
Well-written but repetitive and predictable!
I was disappointed by this. I have thoroughly enjoyed other books by DK - but I was not impressed with this - at all!! Read more
Published 1 month ago by J. Baxter
Could do better!
There is an intriguing story in here somewhere, but it gets a bit lost in the nearly 650 pages! Writer Thomas Nesbitt is looking back to the time when he was living in the divided... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jan
The Moment - depressing
I am a big fan of Douglas Kennedy and although he is a brilliant writer I found this book very depressing and not a glimmer of cheerfulness all the way through. Read more
Published 2 months ago by ann pearman
The moment came. The moment went. And I still think of us and cry
** CONTAINS SPOILERS **
American travel writer Thomas Nesbitt meets Petra in Berlin, fresh over from the Eastern bloc, falls in love and then, twenty five years later we... Read more
American travel writer Thomas Nesbitt meets Petra in Berlin, fresh over from the Eastern bloc, falls in love and then, twenty five years later we... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Four Violets
Patience will be rewarded
I am lover of all books of DK, but i must admit, i was tempted to quit on this one, and then i read someone's review saying that the book got better after the first 150 pages, so i... Read more
Published 2 months ago by A. Ventura
Disappointing
I've read most of the books Douglas Kennedy has written, but was disappointed by this. Unlike his earlier books and even the more recent "Leaving the World", I didn't find this at... Read more
Published 2 months ago by booklover
Increased my knowledge of the time
***** CONTAINS SPOILER *****
This was my first DK read, and one that I actually bought rather than borrowed or online market bought, being swayed by the intriguing... Read more
This was my first DK read, and one that I actually bought rather than borrowed or online market bought, being swayed by the intriguing... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Book Chick
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