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A review by jjp723
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
4.0
Great book. Excellent writing, vivid details and characters who you actually care about even tho sometimes you'd like to shake them they are so aggravating. It made me think about judging people from looks alone and also how much a small kindness can mean to someone - or even change a life. Very highly recommended and looking forward to reading the next two in the series!
*When he stepped off the train in Waverley Station yesterday, he had been expecting the 50 percent of his genes that were Scottish to recognize their heritage. He thought perhaps he would discover and emotional link with a past he'd never known, walk down a street and the faces would feel familiar, turn a corner or climb a stair and there would be an ephiphany of sorts ...*
*It was strange how something you weren't expecting could, nonetheless, turn out to be no surprise at all.*
*He often thought about his dead sister, but she was usually an image in isolation (the idea of his sister). He rarely had a sharply focused picture of something that had actually occurred, and this sudden, unexpected memory of sitting next to Niamh on the bus - the smell of her violet cologne, the rustle of her petticoat, the feel of his arm resting next to hers - tied a tight knot in his heart.*
*And then they got a baby and a dishwasher, and Jackson continued on and didn't think again for a long time about the path he hadn't chosen, a way of life that had never been, yet that didn't stop him from aching for it in some confused place in his soul.*
*He wasn't a whiskey drinker by nature, yet he seemed to have drunk a lot of the stuff since arriving. It must have been in his Scottish blood all this time, calling to him.*
*When he stepped off the train in Waverley Station yesterday, he had been expecting the 50 percent of his genes that were Scottish to recognize their heritage. He thought perhaps he would discover and emotional link with a past he'd never known, walk down a street and the faces would feel familiar, turn a corner or climb a stair and there would be an ephiphany of sorts ...*
*It was strange how something you weren't expecting could, nonetheless, turn out to be no surprise at all.*
*He often thought about his dead sister, but she was usually an image in isolation (the idea of his sister). He rarely had a sharply focused picture of something that had actually occurred, and this sudden, unexpected memory of sitting next to Niamh on the bus - the smell of her violet cologne, the rustle of her petticoat, the feel of his arm resting next to hers - tied a tight knot in his heart.*
*And then they got a baby and a dishwasher, and Jackson continued on and didn't think again for a long time about the path he hadn't chosen, a way of life that had never been, yet that didn't stop him from aching for it in some confused place in his soul.*
*He wasn't a whiskey drinker by nature, yet he seemed to have drunk a lot of the stuff since arriving. It must have been in his Scottish blood all this time, calling to him.*