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Moving On di Joanna Ross
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Moving On (edizione 2013)

di Joanna Ross

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Utente:Northern_Light
Titolo:Moving On
Autori:Joanna Ross
Info:Endeavor Press, Ltd (2013), Kindle Edition, 235 pages
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I have never read a novel by Joanna Ross prior to "Moving On" but was very pleased with what I have read and hope the next book she publishes is just as good as this one.

Ms. Ross's novel takes place in Cape Town, South Africa (not a country I am familiar with at all) and revolves around four women who were widowed who have formed a 'Widow's Club'.

We have Sarah, Kate, Ailsa, and Victoria.

Sarah lost her husband four years ago has been raising her three boys by herself. She has started to finally start thinking romantically about her friend Tony who is also dealing with raising three children on his own.

Kate lost her husband Charlie almost two years ago and is exhausted from trying to manage her two young children by herself.

Ailsa has held on to being resentful of her now deceased husband for decades due to him getting her pregnant while they were at university. His unexpected illness and then death has left her feeling adrift.

Victoria is an ex-pat from England who is newly arrived in South Africa. Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband and their lack of children has caused her to question everything in her life up until now.

As I said I have never read a novel that has taken place in South Africa. I was very intrigued about the location and the way that Ms. Ross writes it, Cape Town could be any city in Europe. Except for a few instances where the author mentions apartheid, Nelson Mandela, and electric fencing in affluent neighborhoods. I have to admit I never thought of Cape Town being particular affluent but Ms. Ross paints a world that is really not that far removed from most western countries. I do want to say that I wish that we had gotten a bit more detail on Africa in general. Ms. Ross does a very good job of describing locations, weather, and terrain of Africa.

I really did like all of the women in this story and thought that an idea of a widow's club was a good one. I felt as if each woman was very distinct and voice and mannerisms were not the same so I didn't get confused or need to recall details on any of them. I have to say that the woman I was most interested in reading about was Sarah. My least favorite was Kate. I felt like she whined and was jealous of everyone else too much for me to give her a lot of sympathy.

There are two main reasons why I only gave this novel four stars. First, there was some formatting issues in my Kindle version. Not enough to completely derail my reading but noticeable enough that there were just sometimes random paragraph breaks that would appear.

The second issue is that sometimes in a few places the flow of the novel would get hampered. Once again, not a lot, but just a few times here and there.

All in all I really did enjoy this novel and would love to read a sequel to catch up with all of the women. Especially since there were some very interesting developments that occurred towards the end of the novel. ( )
  ObsidianBlue | Jul 1, 2020 |
This book tells the story of four women who come together in support after being widowed young and how they try to rebuild their lives. At times very raw and painful at others rich with humour as they meet every month over what is known as 'widow's wine.

However it would have been good if it hadn't featured only well-off women but also some struggling in other ways.

However I was surprised that it seemed to be saying that moving on means finding a new sexual partner, is that really how the world thinks these days? The sex secenes were just not needed and added little if anything to the story!


On the whole though a pleasant little story
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  Northern_Light | Dec 20, 2016 |
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