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The Forgotten Waltz - Community Reviews back

by Anne Enright
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Picked this up after it won the Carnegie prize. Not my usual scene, but I loved the prose and the complicated main character.
The Block
The Block rated it 13 years ago
This Orange prize nominee is a bit disappointing if I'm honest. The human emotion is real and honest. What happens in the book can happen to anyone - and that made me profoundly sad. But... Maybe I'm still to young or optimistic for this and would love it in a few years. Who knows?
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 14 years ago
blurb - In a snow blanketed Dublin, Gina reflects on the last decade, from the moment she first caught a glimpse of Sean Vallely, through a haze of cigarette smoke, through the happenstance and lust, the hotel rooms and the secrets, that have brought down two marriages, three mortgages and left her ...
carey
carey rated it 14 years ago
I liked this a lot more than most of the other reviewers - The dispassionate writing, the minute observations of each flinch and gesture in a marriage, the sudden passions of an unexpected affair and the observations of brittle middle age. I aso really liked the flawed heroine.
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