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smitchy's review against another edition
4.0
This Biography deals with the big issues - death of those closest; cancer; remarriage; being the "other woman"; finding a home; understanding the important things; acceptance of self and community.
Susan doesn't try for sympathy and is honest about the regrets and times when she didn't act as well as she should - All in all a very real and understandable memoir.
The only reason I didn't give five stars is there where times when I felt the way it was written caused a bit of confusion in the timeline of the book (at least to me)
Susan doesn't try for sympathy and is honest about the regrets and times when she didn't act as well as she should - All in all a very real and understandable memoir.
The only reason I didn't give five stars is there where times when I felt the way it was written caused a bit of confusion in the timeline of the book (at least to me)
cathylpowell's review
4.0
Susan Duncan appears to have it all. Editor of two of Australia’s top selling women’s magazines, a happy marriage and a jet setting lifestyle. The world was her oyster. Until her husband and brother die within three days of each other. She goes on auto-pilot for about 18 months until she can’t go on anymore.
She wants to up sticks and turn everything around but it won’t be an easy process. She has her own battle for survival. She chooses to create this new life in a waterside idyll cut off from the outside world. Apparently people either take to it within 2 years or don’t.
She brought it all to life as she moved around and described memories from her childhood. I could visualise her as she commuted to her job and then back to her tranquil life on Pittwater.
‘Life is blithely taken for granted by most of us - until it is threatened’. p.177
My mum’s copy has the lemon cake recipe, but as I was reading it, I realised that I have the cookbook that it has been adapted from: Stephanie Alexander’s ‘The Cook’s Companion.
She wants to up sticks and turn everything around but it won’t be an easy process. She has her own battle for survival. She chooses to create this new life in a waterside idyll cut off from the outside world. Apparently people either take to it within 2 years or don’t.
She brought it all to life as she moved around and described memories from her childhood. I could visualise her as she commuted to her job and then back to her tranquil life on Pittwater.
‘Life is blithely taken for granted by most of us - until it is threatened’. p.177
My mum’s copy has the lemon cake recipe, but as I was reading it, I realised that I have the cookbook that it has been adapted from: Stephanie Alexander’s ‘The Cook’s Companion.
sharolyn's review
5.0
So love a book with a happy ending. The cancer was almost overwhelming at times (seems to be everywhere and no one is safe) and gave me a really great insight in to what a tremendous ordeal people go through with chemo. I loved hearing about the native bushland and beautiful offshore living and would love to visit this area one day.
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