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5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing!, 20 Jun 2008
These characters were so deep you felt like you really knew them. Personally, I would ahve been done with Tansie a long time before the book was finished, but I guess it shows just how patient and undertanding Alix was as a chracter although I felt very sorry for her at times.Two very different people, but what I found beautiful about this book was how in some ways these differences complemented eachother and brought them closer, but ultimately in the end drove them apart. I think it was very good at reflecting the real issues posed by such a realtionship, not just tensions between the characters, but the impact of the relationship and what it really means to become strong and have the relationship you want, not for anyone else. So moving, i cried at the end!
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Ghastly - only read for a laugh, 3 Feb 2007
I howled with laughter most of the way through this. I don't think that is the reaction the author envisaged.
I had the urge to slap the 'heroine'(Alix Clemenger) on many occasions, simply because she is so unbelieveably perfect. Sorry Ms Kimpton, but there is no way she could perform as a concert pianist at the level you describe without spending most of her day practising. Not on, as the book dwells extensively, swanning in and out of board meetings, venting her lust/despair through her latest composition, stuffing her face with champagne/delicious nibbles, or bedding her latest squeeze. Similarly to produce Oscar/Palme d'Or/Nobel prize winning scores requires rather more than the odd half an hour you have between scampering around shopping centres or playing tennis with your mates. (I KNOW there is no Nobel for composition... I am quite sure, however, Ms Kimpton would have handed Alix that, should it have been in existence - she sure won everything else).
Which brings me to the holidays... for somebody so relentlessly 'busy', Alix seems remarkably able to drop everything and jet off around the world on a six-week jaunt. This is possibly aided by her seeming willingness to dump her children on whichever family member/lackey is closest to hand; despite the book spending many pages describing just how devoted a mother she is. Shome mishtake shurely??
I have to admit Tansie Landon (the 'baddie') is rather better drawn, but again suffers from having every cliché you can possibly imagine (and then some) written into her persona. I'm surprised the publishers resisted the temptation to create 'Boo, hiss' footnotes whenever she popped out of the woodwork. In a cast of completely ludicrous characters, however, she is possibly the only redeeming feature: at least she has the guts to tell Alix to effoff a couple of times (I'd have applauded if she'd taken a jackhammer to the latter during one of her tantrums, frankly).
In summary, only buy if it's a grey day and you are in need of a snigger; alternatively if you fancy setting yourself a challenge in counting how many times 'luminous(or similar adjective) green eyes' are mentioned. I am, meanwhile, profoundly grateful my copy came free with something else and I didn't have to waste my dosh on such total nonsense.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A beautiful story...wonderfully told...this book is differen, 13 Jun 2002
I have often been very disappointed by lesbian fiction...I have bought many books in support of lesbian authors and have either put them down after the first couple of chapters....and/or fallen asleep!
Tansie is different though.
Believable characters, brilliantly paced and story telling with real depth and emotion.
I would recommend this to any women, curious about what a relationship with another woman may be like, and the joy it can bring!!
READ!!
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