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A review by jenni8fer
Missing by Alison Moore
5.0
I really enjoyed this! Alison Moore writes about human relationships so well. This is a novel about human connections and communication.
Missing follows Jessie Noon, a woman nearing age 50 whose husband walked out on her almost a year ago, leaving only a short note written in the steam on the bathroom mirror one morning. Her husband left behind his dog, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, for her to care for and she has her cat. In her hope that he returns, she never changes the locks. He has begun to send her strange unsigned postcards.
Throughout Missing Jessie is reading her third biography of D.H. Lawrence. Jessie gathers from her readings that for Lawrence there was always a sense of two worlds, the old England and the new, the pre- and post-Industrial age, and this world and the 'other' world. Jessie hears noises at night coming from the spare room next to her bedroom which she thinks could be a ghost.
She hasn't seen or talked to her adult son from her first marriage since he left home as a teenager; however, she continues to send him text messages.
One day walking the dog by the river she meets Robert whom she's seen around on other occasions and they begin a relationship. Although, Robert has an uptight disposition which makes him intolerable to Jessie's easy-going, somewhat flighty, nature.
Following each chapter on modern day events is a chapter looking back at Jessie's life at 18 in 1985, caring for her five-year-old niece, Eleanor. Her sister's husband doesn't care for her and it shows. One day a terrible tragedy occurs which reverberates to the present day, causing familial relations to not be as close as they once were.
Missing follows Jessie Noon, a woman nearing age 50 whose husband walked out on her almost a year ago, leaving only a short note written in the steam on the bathroom mirror one morning. Her husband left behind his dog, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, for her to care for and she has her cat. In her hope that he returns, she never changes the locks. He has begun to send her strange unsigned postcards.
Throughout Missing Jessie is reading her third biography of D.H. Lawrence. Jessie gathers from her readings that for Lawrence there was always a sense of two worlds, the old England and the new, the pre- and post-Industrial age, and this world and the 'other' world. Jessie hears noises at night coming from the spare room next to her bedroom which she thinks could be a ghost.
She hasn't seen or talked to her adult son from her first marriage since he left home as a teenager; however, she continues to send him text messages.
One day walking the dog by the river she meets Robert whom she's seen around on other occasions and they begin a relationship. Although, Robert has an uptight disposition which makes him intolerable to Jessie's easy-going, somewhat flighty, nature.
Following each chapter on modern day events is a chapter looking back at Jessie's life at 18 in 1985, caring for her five-year-old niece, Eleanor. Her sister's husband doesn't care for her and it shows. One day a terrible tragedy occurs which reverberates to the present day, causing familial relations to not be as close as they once were.