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A review by pph_library_bookclub
The Secret of Nightingale Wood by Lucy Strange
4.0
Everyone in the book club finished and enjoyed this book.
This was just basically one big nostalgia fest for all of us. It reminded us a lot of books like The Railway Children that we read when we were younger and reminded us to read more books like this just to make us happy. It was a very traditional and classic tale in the way it's told and the subject matter where we are following the children because the adults have left them alone. We liked the traditional roles of goodies and baddies being used in this book, it's nice for things to just be clear every once in a while.
Having said that it was a child like book we also found that it was fairly dark and gothic in nature as well. But then a lot of fairy-tales and childrens books can have those elements. We found the things done to the mother particularly creepy and worrying, those doctors were just so disturbing!
We had a discussion about postnatal depression and grief during this meeting as we felt it fitted well with the adults in the book. We also discussed about how the treatment of mental health issues has changed so much over the years.
Overall we gave this book 8 out of 10.
This was just basically one big nostalgia fest for all of us. It reminded us a lot of books like The Railway Children that we read when we were younger and reminded us to read more books like this just to make us happy. It was a very traditional and classic tale in the way it's told and the subject matter where we are following the children because the adults have left them alone. We liked the traditional roles of goodies and baddies being used in this book, it's nice for things to just be clear every once in a while.
Having said that it was a child like book we also found that it was fairly dark and gothic in nature as well. But then a lot of fairy-tales and childrens books can have those elements. We found the things done to the mother particularly creepy and worrying, those doctors were just so disturbing!
We had a discussion about postnatal depression and grief during this meeting as we felt it fitted well with the adults in the book. We also discussed about how the treatment of mental health issues has changed so much over the years.
Overall we gave this book 8 out of 10.