Jill Catherine Reed

Unique story, well read.

Revisado: 07-22-24

A compelling and somewhat mysterious story that asks many questions. The 4 main characters are well defined and allow their personalities develop; it is essentially about this development within the backdrop of the societal constraints of the time and the happenings of the plot. The mystery surrounding the miniaturist is somewhat unsatisfactorily explained to my mind but altogether a good book.

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The people living In the area, famous or ordinary, became my acquaintances as I listened.

Revisado: 05-16-24

The research behind the simple and relaxed retelling of these lives must have been massive ; the editing also a major task leaving each detail of enormous interest.

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Just brilliant.

Revisado: 05-22-23

Social history and entwined family relationships between totally believable individuals told through their own understandings of their lives.
A complex book with many characters which would be too confusing if not for the skill of the writer. Beautiful language.

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A compassionate story about wholly believable people

Revisado: 10-04-22

This story is somewhat off-putting in the beginning, lengthy passages of foreign languages are off-putting, but I’m so glad I continued, continued to seemingly know many of the characters, how they spoke, felt and thought in the long hours that bound them to each other.

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Beautifully read but …..

Revisado: 09-22-22

The plot is good and main characters are well drawn as we have come to expect from this author but the twitter correspondence is almost never ending and contributes to a matrix of clues and false leads that I failed to bother with at times.
I am led to agree that Rowling has a private agenda to teach us ordinary folk how dangerous anonymous private and public groups can be in spreading misinformation and hate and how difficult it can be to extract oneself from them once begun.

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A study of a boring irritating husband.

Revisado: 06-30-22

I found the story engaging but it needed editing. The ‘I’ person was pretty irritating, with little insight, this was his character but none the less having lived with a person with similar characteristics for 60 years I came no nearer to finding it totally charming. I also found fault with the reader who muddled the London with the Australian accents to a disgraceful degree at times.

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From childhood to adulthood 1930-46

Revisado: 05-22-20

The story comprehensively covers the changes brought about by the war to several levels of society through the varied experiences of two friends and their families. It is a romantic and poetic tale as the girls experience love and loss, joy and beauty of nature found in the Cornish villages and also for one in Sri Lanka.

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A great story but spoiled by intrusive sounds.

Revisado: 03-23-20

Sadly it was difficult quite often to establish which of the characters was speaking . Dramatic sounds should have helped to indicate where and where abouts the scene changed but they were often heavy handed and told us little.

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