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2.91 AVERAGE
2.91 AVERAGE
Two stories are told: one the 2011 experiences of Grace, her brother Andrew, and Andrew's boyfriend James, the other a tale of hidden homosexuality and unwed motherhood from decades past, as written but not published by an author who allegedly based part of the tale on James' ancestor. I found the 2011 tale frustrating -- Grace's actions were reprehensible, and Andrew's acceptance seems unearned, contrived even. The story told in the novel-within-the-novel is fairly well drawn, but again the female character Maud is so unpleasant that it's difficult to spend so much time with her. Her brother is an effectively tragic character, but the novel continues on well past his death, and from the moment he drowned my interest waned.
I might rather have read Grace's thesis about unwed motherhood in fiction.
I might rather have read Grace's thesis about unwed motherhood in fiction.