KA McNamara

It was ok. Free and entertaining

Revisado: 01-22-25

If you don’t mind tropes and incomplete endings then this is for you. It is written as if characters sitting on stools on a stage speaking whenever the spotlight falls on them. The main characters Car and Vivian are lacking. Cat is a flat stereotype and Vivian who you are cheering on never makes a decision or a change. No gumption.

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The sublimeness of motherhood

Revisado: 09-09-24

This tale Beams (author) weaves so expertly. Drawing on our knowledge of gardens: the garden of Eden, the Secret Garden where the sick children are squirreled away when really they need sunlight, of Frankenstein and what we sometimes create when we try to play God, of wanting that something, that put deep within, to feel complete that you’ll do anything. Anything.

The reader does a wonderful job at capturing the women making the MC (main character) Irene’s voice clipped and bristly,forthright, and abrupt when she speaks but kinder or rather softer when she is her interior self. Irene is someone who is always on guard and is very astute. A child she knows is necessary for her husband but for Irene keeping one to term is a puzzle she can’t figure out. She will do anything for her husband even if it means living in a gothic-like mansion worthy of the English moors that is the eerie, fairy tale like atmosphere of the obstetrics residential clinic.

Beams excels at setting, at atmospheres, and unearthing questions re: maternity, motherhood, and pregnancy loss with the shame, anger, and disappointment that accompanies such a loss. She considers the godliness of doctors, the power of absolute control corrupting absolutely, and how we need draw deep within ourselves not to be lost in the current.
The imagery is so vivid, so visceral, so evocative, and so nuanced that you’ll find yourself marveling at this story and all its wondrous threads pulled into a magnificent tapestry. Bravo!

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An awesome novel!

Revisado: 12-13-22

Loved the whole thing—will listen to it again! Nostalgic (it’s my era) and explores the magic that is team, youth, and woman. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Wonderfully crafted - round characters twisted plot

Revisado: 10-29-15

Read the book and then listened to it. Never grows old. Found a new appreciation for the author at every turn. The beauty of word choice, passages quoted from nursery rhymes and bits of poetry, fables and psalms - all well chosen. Well done - written & read. Archer is a gem; Atkinson an artisan.

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