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A review by doorva
A House Full of Windsor by Kristin Contino
hopeful
lighthearted
slow-paced
2.0
A House Full of Windsor is the kind of book you pick up because the blurb makes it sound really interesting and when you pick it, you know right away that you won't like it much. If you are looking to read a fiction piece on hoarding and reality shows, then KJ Dell Antonia's The Chicken Sisters is the one you should go for.
Debbie has a problem. Somewhere she knows it too but much like any other addiction, she refuses to acknowledge it. Will, Sarah and Anne, her children, decide to take her life to a reality TV show called Stuff, produced by a hunky Pierce.
If you are hoping for reality TV vibes or a Debbie finding peace or hoarding being dealt with in the correct way for the patient, none of that happens. In a book which seemed quite massive and went on for way longer than it should have, I expected to read so much more than I did. The story shoots off in different directions. There are extra storylines going on in the book which would have made sense if the main storyline wasn't so stretched.
It was nice to see the way Debbie made parallels with Princess Diana and those few sentences were some of the only things which I enjoyed about the book.
Debbie has a problem. Somewhere she knows it too but much like any other addiction, she refuses to acknowledge it. Will, Sarah and Anne, her children, decide to take her life to a reality TV show called Stuff, produced by a hunky Pierce.
If you are hoping for reality TV vibes or a Debbie finding peace or hoarding being dealt with in the correct way for the patient, none of that happens. In a book which seemed quite massive and went on for way longer than it should have, I expected to read so much more than I did. The story shoots off in different directions. There are extra storylines going on in the book which would have made sense if the main storyline wasn't so stretched.
It was nice to see the way Debbie made parallels with Princess Diana and those few sentences were some of the only things which I enjoyed about the book.