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pgchuis 's review for:
They Left Us Everything: A Memoir
by Plum Johnson
Plum's elderly mother dies and this is a memoir of how she clears out the family home and looks back over her childhood and the lives of her parents. Plum's American mother and British father met during the second world war and the story of their marriage is fascinating and amusing. I loved the way Plum and her brothers were so affectionate towards one another and so united in the decisions they made about the house and its contents. Plum looks back on a difficult relationship with her mother and an easier one with her frugal, unbending father with humour and honesty. There is a lot of humour here and a lot of sadness, especially over the deaths of Plum's brother Sandy from cancer and her father's after years of dementia.
Food for thought, but I think it could have been a little shorter; I was not as interested as Plum clearly was in exactly what happened to every item of furniture and the trials and tribulations of the house sale.
Food for thought, but I think it could have been a little shorter; I was not as interested as Plum clearly was in exactly what happened to every item of furniture and the trials and tribulations of the house sale.