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A review by clairewords
Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi
3.0
A single mother of two boys wants to take them on a little holiday near the sea. That might sound simple enough, but it is a major life event and challenge for this mother, who suffers from some kind of mental affliction that requires her to take daily medication.
This trip is out of the ordinary and we experience it from inside the mind of the mother, the stream of consciousness narrative is so effective here, it gets inside your own mind as you read and we feel her sense of anxiety and the hostility of the outside world, from which she wishes to protect her children.
An incredible novella, I just couldn't give it any more stars, as I don't particularly enjoy going into that state and arriving at its inevitable conclusion.
It is an interesting challenge, that an author would choose to travel inside the mind of someone like this and I am sure this was probably one of the works that the publisher Mieke Ziervogel read as research in writing her book 'Magda'.
Poignant and thought-provoking too, given the issues that lie beneath its surface, this is the story that is never told and rarely understood by the public, who only see the end result and judge it too easily.
This is the first book in the Peirene Press Female Voices: Inner Realities series.
My full review here at Word by Word.
This trip is out of the ordinary and we experience it from inside the mind of the mother, the stream of consciousness narrative is so effective here, it gets inside your own mind as you read and we feel her sense of anxiety and the hostility of the outside world, from which she wishes to protect her children.
An incredible novella, I just couldn't give it any more stars, as I don't particularly enjoy going into that state and arriving at its inevitable conclusion.
It is an interesting challenge, that an author would choose to travel inside the mind of someone like this and I am sure this was probably one of the works that the publisher Mieke Ziervogel read as research in writing her book 'Magda'.
Poignant and thought-provoking too, given the issues that lie beneath its surface, this is the story that is never told and rarely understood by the public, who only see the end result and judge it too easily.
This is the first book in the Peirene Press Female Voices: Inner Realities series.
My full review here at Word by Word.