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The Good House
by Ann Leary
#bookreview #readfineprintreviews I’m a new follower of the Modern Mrs. Darcy and she recommended this as an amazing audio book. I downloaded it immediately from Scribd and SHE WAS RIGHT. I’m a new fan of Ann Leary AND Ann Bogel.
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The audiobook reader of this book, Mary Beth Hurt, brings this book to life. The plot builds slowly with Hildy Good, a sixty something year old, divorced realtor as the narrator.
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And that’s the first reason the book is amazing: Hildy’s character. I think years from now I may forget she was a book and I will think she was someone I knew. Is this book character driven? Yes. But it’s also a great story. In the end it actually turns into a mystery. Second reason this book is so good: the setting of Wendover, Massachusetts was so real to me that when the author (in the interview afterwards) said it was fictional I let out a big sigh. I seriously want to go there! She said it was modeled after her hometown.
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Alcoholism is a huge theme in this book and also: adultery, raising a disabled child, motherhood, and also there are horses
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The audiobook reader of this book, Mary Beth Hurt, brings this book to life. The plot builds slowly with Hildy Good, a sixty something year old, divorced realtor as the narrator.
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And that’s the first reason the book is amazing: Hildy’s character. I think years from now I may forget she was a book and I will think she was someone I knew. Is this book character driven? Yes. But it’s also a great story. In the end it actually turns into a mystery. Second reason this book is so good: the setting of Wendover, Massachusetts was so real to me that when the author (in the interview afterwards) said it was fictional I let out a big sigh. I seriously want to go there! She said it was modeled after her hometown.
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Alcoholism is a huge theme in this book and also: adultery, raising a disabled child, motherhood, and also there are horses