bean_reader's Reviews (447)

I love Ann's writing. Her character descriptions, the scenes she sets. It's all amazingly vivid and real. It does bring to mind my own childhood (there were 6 of us too), running free during the summer days, coming in for dinner at the ringing bell. I actually thought this story flowed seamlessly, even if in the moment I wondered why it jumped from one sibling's story to the next. The emotions evoked by the descriptions of each of the Keating and Cousins children were so familiar, because they were so like my own family's.