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A review by catherine_louise
Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh
2.0
The prose is good. It's easy to turn the page. The problem is that Jennifer Haigh thinks she is writing a wise and profound treatise about marriage (at least according to the ponderous author's note in my ebook edition, which describes Mrs. Kimble as a "meditation on marriage: why women hunger for it, what we're willing to sacrifice in order to have it") and this book is neither wise nor profound.
I loved Haigh's later book THE CONDITION and you can see some themes of that book—dealing with one's choices—in rudimentary form in this one. But this book is exceedingly mediocre.
I loved Haigh's later book THE CONDITION and you can see some themes of that book—dealing with one's choices—in rudimentary form in this one. But this book is exceedingly mediocre.