![]() ![]() Everything is believable and the shifting time line easy to follow. It’s an engaging book with an engaging central character / narrator and a good supporting cast. She makes it clear in the notes at the back of this edition that this book came from a conversation with her daughter and a “what if” question, and it’s equally clear that she approached the topic with humility and respect and did her best by the subject. I’d enjoyed at least one of her novels, “The Jane Austen Book Club” but this really is a masterpiece of research and weaving together of fact and fiction. I think this must have been Fowler’s break-out book, mustn’t it, when she suddenly upped her game. Karen Joy Fowler – “We are all Completely Beside Ourselves” ![]() And now, because of the big plot twist, which makes it really hard to review, and because I also don’t really want to think that much about it because of the horrible cat bits in it (why did no one warn me when they saw I was going to read it?) so this is going to be a short review. And I did change my mind, even though I knew the big plot twist. ![]() I was given this book for my LibraryThing Virago Group Secret Santa last year and have to admit I’d not fancied reading it, though I appreciated being sent it in a lovely and thoughtful box of books. ![]()
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