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Lindsay (1717 KP) rated A Letter from Lancaster County in Books

Apr 9, 2019

A Letter for Lancaster County is a good sweet story. It seems about a redemption and learning to deal with death and grief. What a lovely plot. Katie Lloyd does a good job with it. We get the perspective of the main characters named Rose and Angelina.

They get a letter from their aunt Sylvia. Both girls is dealing with their own problems and grief of their mother. Will they learn that letting go and have faith? There a budding romance going on as well. What could that be and can Glenn and Rose being a match? You will need to find out by reading.

Can Angelina figure out what going on at home and her husband and family? To find that out, you will need to read to determine that. They find out that their Aunt Sylvia is sick, Will Rose decide to stay or will she go back to her home in Washington? This is a lovely and sweet story of love, friendship, and redemptions.

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The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Meghan O'Rourke

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Meghan O'Rourke was thirty-two when her mother died of cancer on Christmas Day, 2008. As a writer,...

Standing on My Brother's Shoulders

Tara J. Lal

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'A deeply affecting memoir. Tara's courageous book tracks the nature and processes of destruction,...

An Aviary of Small Birds

Karen McCarthy Woolf

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An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities...

Sara Cox (1845 KP) rated Hamnet in Books

May 24, 2020

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry

8.4

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Hamnet, about a son of a playwright, a twin of a sister, a saviour of a twin. This novel is beautifully written and pulls at the heartstrings. The writing creates atmosphere and suspense. It is well researched. I particularly like the chapter about the journey of the flea, not completely necessary but definitely added to the narrative. I know that this was a particularly good book as now o want to read Hamlet to see of there are any clues into Hamnet's life, or death, or Shakespeare's grief over the loss of his son. I was captured and engrossed from the beginning. I loved the mystery surrounding Agnes, however I feel that her character would have been more of a support of grief rather than to succumb to it. Definitely the best historic fiction that I've read this year. "To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.."