- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Perennial; Film Tie-in Ed edition (5 July 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007166753
- ISBN-13: 978-0007166756
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,448,758 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘A novel that’s so engrossing it makes you want to retire to a squashy sofa until you reach the end. Vividly fresh…glittering and spangled with fabulous surprises.’ Sunday Times
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Brilliantly written, amazingly insightful, sumptous prose that describes the little things so well. And somehow it remains very readable (much easier that the Stone Diaries - which I gave up upon). The story line is slow to start, but in retrospect, this is one the novel's achievements and it actually gives a suspense to the latter half.
And yes, it's a love story, but not a cheesy one (despite the book's title), but one that is grounded in reality which gives real power to the words.
If you havent read Carol Shields before, this is a great place to start.
And yes, it's a love story, but not a cheesy one (despite the book's title), but one that is grounded in reality which gives real power to the words.
If you havent read Carol Shields before, this is a great place to start.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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"who ever loved that love not at first sight?"
Carol Shields makes both her two protagonists very human, we become really interested in their (very ordinary) lives - she convinces us ordinary lives are to be wondered at - and the love at first sight reads very naturally when it arises.
We normally expect there to be some reason why people get together. At least once upon a time 19th century novelists reflected on this. Carol Shields doesn't. The pleasure is in recognising emotion, not for example deep character analysis.
Do we believe in love at first sight? I've recently read a book by Sharon Moalem that claims that scent has a powerful and immediate role in the selection of mates; and in the distant past recollect reading suggestions in the writings of Robin Skynner that the selection of partners in stranger groups seems to reflect deep unconscious but highly effective non-verbal signalling. So who knows?
Either way, this novel makes for a quite unequivocally enjoyable reading experience.
Carol Shields makes both her two protagonists very human, we become really interested in their (very ordinary) lives - she convinces us ordinary lives are to be wondered at - and the love at first sight reads very naturally when it arises.
We normally expect there to be some reason why people get together. At least once upon a time 19th century novelists reflected on this. Carol Shields doesn't. The pleasure is in recognising emotion, not for example deep character analysis.
Do we believe in love at first sight? I've recently read a book by Sharon Moalem that claims that scent has a powerful and immediate role in the selection of mates; and in the distant past recollect reading suggestions in the writings of Robin Skynner that the selection of partners in stranger groups seems to reflect deep unconscious but highly effective non-verbal signalling. So who knows?
Either way, this novel makes for a quite unequivocally enjoyable reading experience.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read this book about four times and each time it has made me cry. It is a sweet, lyrical, lovely book and I unreservedly recommend it.
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