This Must Be the Place
An irresistible love story for fans of The Beautiful Ruins and Where’d You Go, Bernadette: Maggie O’Farrell’s This Must Be the Place is a smart, sophisticated, spellbinding summer read that captures the collapse—and reawakening—of an extraordinary marriage.Daniel Sullivan, a young American...
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An irresistible love story for fans of The Beautiful Ruins and Where’d You Go, Bernadette: Maggie O’Farrell’s This Must Be the Place is a smart, sophisticated, spellbinding summer read that captures the collapse—and reawakening—of an extraordinary marriage.Daniel Sullivan, a young American professor reeling from a failed marriage and a brutal custody battle, is on holiday
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780385349420 (0385349424)
ASIN: 385349424
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
I am a fan of Maggie O' Farrell's novels but this book was all over the place for me and I just didn't come to grips with any of the characters or the constant shifts in time and place. I find O' Farrells writing normally quirky and engaging but this book left me feeling frustrated the further alon...
"There is a man..........There is a man and the man is me" What an amazing way to start a novel; so simple, yet so precise. Maggie O'Farrell is a beautiful writer and I was disappointed to find that I hadn't highlighted more of her prose as I read this book. The man is Daniel Sullivan, an American...
About 15 different narrators. About 15 different locations. Time that begins in 2010 and reaches back to 1944 and forward to 2016. These are the intertwined narratives that comprise This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell. The individual chapters envelop me in the perspective being told in the ch...
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