A wonderful book! I loved the way the narration is structured: the history of a family told through the description of some family photographs. The story is all centered around 3 main female characters and their history through the years, from the beginning o ww2 to nowadays.
A wonderful book! I loved the way the narration is structured: the history of a family told through the description of some family photographs. The story is all centered around 3 main female characters and their history through the years, from the beginning o ww2 to nowadays.
I find it an unusual book for Jonathan Coe for two main reasons: -it is strongly (and wonderfully) centered on the characters and no space is left to political or social events and comments. -the ending (that I'm not going to spoil) avoids what, for me, is one of the weaknesses of most of the previous books by Coe (i know I'm being a bit enigmatic ;) )
A wonderful book!
I loved the way the narration is structured: the history of a family told through the description of some family photographs. The story is all centered around 3 main female characters and their history through the years, from the beginning o ww2 to nowadays.
I find it an ... (continue)
A wonderful book!
I loved the way the narration is structured: the history of a family told through the description of some family photographs. The story is all centered around 3 main female characters and their history through the years, from the beginning o ww2 to nowadays.
I find it an unusual book for Jonathan Coe for two main reasons:
-it is strongly (and wonderfully) centered on the characters and no space is left to political or social events and comments.
-the ending (that I'm not going to spoil) avoids what, for me, is one of the weaknesses of most of the previous books by Coe (i know I'm being a bit enigmatic ;) )