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'Alison Lurie'
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denisebetteridge
denisebetteridge rated it 12 years ago
The title was playful, but I didn't understand the purpose of the book. Nothing interesting happened. Rather, nothing happened. A spinster moves to a place because she liked a flower that was grown there, her nephew moves there and she all of a sudden hates him for no reason, she sees a man who is ...
To Read Is to Fly
To Read Is to Fly rated it 12 years ago
Sylvia Townsend Warner, London, 1920sWhen we meet Laura Willowes in the opening pages of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s first novel, Lolly Willowes (pub. 1926), her sister-in-law Caroline is distractedly offering for Laura to live in London with herself and Laura’s brother Henry, following the death of La...
scottakennedy
scottakennedy rated it 14 years ago
A lovely, subtle story with acid humor etched in its sentences. Makes me immediately want to read more of this tremendous writer I've only just discovered.
SJane
SJane rated it 14 years ago
Meh. The plot was dull. Or rather, the idea wasn't bad, but the execution was dull. The characters couldn't save it. It would all be salvageable if the prose were luminous or intricate or bold or crazy funny. But it wasn't. Feminist classic? Ok, but there must be better.
Maven Books
Maven Books rated it 15 years ago
It started out well enough, and but then the story took a weird turn. Unfortunately, this turn was rather strange and also got less interesting as it went along.
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