McKeon, B. (2011). Solace. New York: Scribner.
Dr Anne awards this book 8/10.
This was a compelling read, a real page turner. It was a great start to Dr Anne's Christmas reading season. The book came highly recommended by November's Saga Magazine.
The characters were rich and thick and the reader related to them with much empathy. There was the father grounded in the land with the wife, the central figure of the family. There was the daughter who had left her culture and traditions for the big city never to return and the son who wanted the academic life in the city but was always drawn back into his rural context usually with a reluctant sense of duty.
The build up to the story was page turning, the reflection of the happening thought provoking, the outcome of the happening realistic to someone who has recently been there. The ending left one in the now with no strategy for the future apart from maybe going on a sight seeing trip.
Is this what life is about?
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