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A review by angelfish257
The Invisible Women's Club: The Perfect Feel-good and Life-affirming Book about the Power of Unlikely Friendships and Connection by Helen Paris
4.0
The main character in this book is Janet Pimm, a rather prickly septuagenarian who lives a small life and feels more kinship with her plants in her allotment than with other people.
She sticks to a strict routine and does her best to avoid her neighbour Bev's attempts at friendship.
A series of events leads to her beloved allotment being threatened with closure, resulting in Janet and Bev making a road trip to try to help get things set right again.
Janet is fiercely independent and we learn a bit of her background history, where we find out she is incredibly intelligent but has been routinely overlooked and ignored (in her eyes). There is also a lost love and other tragic events which add a bittersweet flavour to her memories as she tries to retrace some of her steps from years ago.
The themes of loss, bereavement and wasted or lost opportunities are sensitively handled by the author and echo across other characters, as Janet starts to integrate more with her fellow allotmenteers and not self isolate so much.
There are lots of gardening references throughout as that's her first love and it was quite interesting to learn some of the medicinal properties of different plants.
By the end Janet is much less of the 'invisible woman' she feared she had become - a lovely story celebrating the strength of older women.
She sticks to a strict routine and does her best to avoid her neighbour Bev's attempts at friendship.
A series of events leads to her beloved allotment being threatened with closure, resulting in Janet and Bev making a road trip to try to help get things set right again.
Janet is fiercely independent and we learn a bit of her background history, where we find out she is incredibly intelligent but has been routinely overlooked and ignored (in her eyes). There is also a lost love and other tragic events which add a bittersweet flavour to her memories as she tries to retrace some of her steps from years ago.
The themes of loss, bereavement and wasted or lost opportunities are sensitively handled by the author and echo across other characters, as Janet starts to integrate more with her fellow allotmenteers and not self isolate so much.
There are lots of gardening references throughout as that's her first love and it was quite interesting to learn some of the medicinal properties of different plants.
By the end Janet is much less of the 'invisible woman' she feared she had become - a lovely story celebrating the strength of older women.