by Emylia Hall
Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel. Inside is a letter informing her that Marika, her long-estranged mother has died. There is a scrapbook Beth has never seen before. Entitled The Book of Summers, it’s stuffed with photographs and mementos compiled by her mother to record the seven glorious childhood...
This book had the feeling of typical women's lit to me. I wasn't thrilled with the storyline and felt it was more than a bit predictable in how it progressed. Although, I must admit, being part Hungarian, I loved the Hungarian influence into the story...otherwise, it probably would have been a two s...
I LOVED this book. I agree with other reviews that it took a little bit to get going but the prose was simply beautiful and I couldn't put the book down after awhile. Watching the protagonist go back in her life with childhood innocence turning into teenage angst pulled together with the descriptive...
“I realized then that I’d tried so hard to forget the big things, that all the little things had gone too.”For twenty years Beth Low has suppressed memories of her mother, Marika, and Hungary. Then her father visits her in London and gives her a package with Hungarian stamps on it. Inside she finds...
While Beth is sitting in Victoria Park, London, the reader journeys alongside her into those six summers of visits to Hungary interspersed with moments of reality. We are completely immersed in the world as it was at that time. Those sun-drenched summers are portrayed with life and zest. Beth oft...
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