The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781473508439 (1473508436)
Publish date: June 19th 2014
Publisher: Transworld Digital
Edition language: English
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes didn’t quite do it for me. I was going to call this an easy and fun book, because that’s how it read. But that is also what is wrong with this it. I don’t want a book about cancer and dying to be easy to read—and probably easy to forget—or fun. Some levity among the dar...
"It was a bright April day and forty-year-old Mia ‘Rabbit’ Hayes, beloved daughter of Molly and Jack, sister of Grace and Davey, mother of twelve-year-old Juliet, best friend to Marjorie Shaw and the one true love of Johnny Faye’s life, was on her way to a hospice to die." I have put a spoiler tag...
Am I just cold hearted? I expected to be sobbing throughout this book, like I was with Paula by Isobel Allende, but this one just didn't affect me in the same way (possibly because this was fiction, while Paula was a memoir). I enjoyed the characters and the back-story of Rabbit Hayes, her brother's...