Fiona Shaw (2) (1964–)
Autore di Tell it to the Bees
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Opere di Fiona Shaw
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1964
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- York, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Istruzione
- University of Sussex (PhD)
University of York - Attività lavorative
- novelist
memoirist
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 8
- Utenti
- 269
- Popolarità
- #85,899
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 9
- ISBN
- 44
- Lingue
- 2
This time around I was easily able to sink into the world of Lydia Weekes, her son Charlie and Dr. Markham.
This is very much a love story but not just romantic love. It is the love of a mother for a quiet and different child. It is that child trying to deal with the break up of his parents marriage and trying to figure out the depression it brings to his mother: "He didn’t know if she was happy or sad, because she wasn’t there."
And it is about finding love in unexpected and wonderful places. It is about finding family not by blood but by shared bonds. Some of my favorite scenes in the book were between Dr. Jean and Charlie as she teaches him about beekeeping... or perhaps just watching him in the garden.
I know there is a movie of this book which I have not seen but I was sad to hear that the ending was changed. Obviously books and films are different mediums with different demands but in a world with so few LGBT movies it is sad to see it was changed arguably to the worse.… (altro)