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A review by ladulcinella
Unless by Carol Shields
4.0
This book is not about big things...it is about a woman in her fourties who is writing novels and leads a rather ordinary life.
While we read about her world (her husband, her three daughters - one of them does something completely unexpected -, her books, her editor,...) we get to know her thinking processes, and learn how her doubts and certainities change..
She offers us an insight on her opinions on emanicpation of women in the letters she writes (but doesn’t send) to several instances.
I allways enjoy these kind of novels... not about the big things, not with a beautiful or suspenseful story arch, but rather they tell in a small, fragmented and subtle way about life and what it is about. Also I found her insights on the questions a mother of grown up daughters ask herself, very much to the point. And as a surplus, it is beautifully written...
While we read about her world (her husband, her three daughters - one of them does something completely unexpected -, her books, her editor,...) we get to know her thinking processes, and learn how her doubts and certainities change..
She offers us an insight on her opinions on emanicpation of women in the letters she writes (but doesn’t send) to several instances.
I allways enjoy these kind of novels... not about the big things, not with a beautiful or suspenseful story arch, but rather they tell in a small, fragmented and subtle way about life and what it is about. Also I found her insights on the questions a mother of grown up daughters ask herself, very much to the point. And as a surplus, it is beautifully written...