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Banishing Verona (Paperback)

by Margot Livesey (Author)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Henry Holt & Company (Nov 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0805074627
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805074628
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,842,881 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent read, 28 Feb 2006
This review is from: Banishing Verona (Paperback)
This was a very well-written book about Zeke, a painter and decorator who has mild Asperger's Syndrome, and Verona, a single pregnant woman, a decade older than him. After spending a short time with her, Zeke falls in love with her and follows her to America, where Verona has gone in search of her wayward brother.

Zeke is an extremely endearing character and this novel is as much about his problems with human relationships, as about him and Verona.

Highly recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars She buys him a fried egg sandwich, 2 Oct 2009
By E. Shaw "Kokoschka's_cat" (Leeds, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Banishing Verona (Paperback)
This is one of those books you fall into and look up hours later dazed with delight. The writing has a remarkable touch of witty veracity combined with deep emotional and psychological insight.

Zeke has problems - Asperger's Syndrome - for which he was treated as a child and helped and supported to gain useful employment as a painter and decorator. He has to do a lot of counting in order to control his panic attacks, and sometimes it takes him five or six efforts to leave the house, but his work is excellent and he has an employee Emmanuel, who treats him as if he is just like everyone else. But Zeke looks like a Raphael angel, so there are compensations.

One day a young pregnant woman, Verona, appears at the house where he is working, pronounces that she is the owner's niece (they are away at the moment) and she's come to stay. Then she climbs into a spare pair of overalls (Emmanuel has, yet again, called in sick) and helps with the decorating. The following day she buys him a fried egg sandwich and before long they are lovers.

The novel proceeds in alternate chapters telling Zeke's story, and then Verona's. Verona is not who she appears to be. Her brother Henry is in trouble and menacing figures appear at her flat looking for information on his whereabouts. The plot takes a darker turn when Verona flees to America to find Henry, and the love-struck Zeke follows. Things conspire against them, but the book ends on an upbeat note with much manoeuvring and mixed connections in between.

A sheer, unadulterated pleasure to read, Margot Livesey combines mystery, adroit character creation and development with a lively pace and an intriguing plot that keeps you glued to the page in this wonderful book.
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