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ridgewaygirl's review
4.0
August tells the story of an ordinary family from London, who go every year to a farmer's field in Wales to camp out for a few weeks. Beginning in 1955, when Aldous meets the farmer and is invited to stay, until their last visit in 1970, when all but the youngest Jones is too old for a family camping holiday, Woodward tells of Aldous, a promising art student who finds contentment in teaching and loves his vivacious wife Colette, who loves her family and is devastated at the death of her mother. Their children, Janus, James, Juliette and Julian, grow up loving the Welsh countryside.
This isn't a book with a clear plot line. Rather, it follows the ups and downs of the Jones family, changing in point of view from one to the other. It's a book about family relationships. I liked it quite a bit. Woodward writes well and provides a vivid picture of what ordinary life was like fifty years ago.
This isn't a book with a clear plot line. Rather, it follows the ups and downs of the Jones family, changing in point of view from one to the other. It's a book about family relationships. I liked it quite a bit. Woodward writes well and provides a vivid picture of what ordinary life was like fifty years ago.
sandeestarlite's review
4.0
What a nice story. No sudden family tragedy, no one gets eaten, no one is turned into a zombie. This is a story of the Jones family, who spend every August camping on the same farm in Wales. We see glimpses of their lives during these summers and how things can change from year to year.
If you like this, read the series in this order though they were not published in this order: August/I’ll go to bed at noon/Curious Earth
If you like this, read the series in this order though they were not published in this order: August/I’ll go to bed at noon/Curious Earth
anndouglas's review against another edition
3.0
This book made for really hard slogging. I ended up finishing it, but only after setting it aside repeatedly. It has literary merit, it has interesting characters, it has an intriguing structure, but ultimately it fell a little flat.
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