by Elizabeth Hay
For a book about the horrible murder of one young girl, an attack on another, stalking, obsession, and numerous affairs and broken marriages, there's surprisingly little urgency. The whole thing felt very detached from events that I would expect to feel compelling, but from which the narrative kept ...
I really enjoyed this book. It was kind of summed up near the end (no spoilers) when the narrator says she started writing about Parley, which lead to Connie, which lead to Michael and the rest of the people she wrote about.This book covers a whole variety of things, conquering ones fears, hopeless...
Set in the nineteen forties, Alone In The Classroom uses the sexual assault upon a pupil in a small town in Canada as the starting point for a series of meditations on family relationships and the nature of memory. In different ways each of the characters is caught up in the eddies created by past e...
5 stars because this is a Canadian book, 5 stars because Connie is a teacher (and a remarkable one at that!), 5 stars for the sensitive and compassionate treatment of learning disabilities, and 5 stars for making me identify with Parley Burns when every beat of my heart and every fibre of my soul ma...
It seems to be a running theme that I have a hard time rating books these days. Goodreads star ratings get more and more difficult as my understanding of different books becomes more and more complex. There are certain things I thoroughly enjoyed about this book (mainly the writing) and things I d...
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