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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Year of Marvellous Waysdi Sarah Winman
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Marvellous Ways lives on a Cornish creek in a caravan with a boat house and a church across the water. Francis Drake returns from France and the 2WW broken and Marvellous rescues him. The water cleanses and washes through the novel and the sense of the healing powers of nature and love are here as well as good bread. Peace, the baker, arrives later in the hamlet. Whimsical and magical with beautiful words, this novel flows along like a watery fairy tale. Marvellous tells the stories of her life and her three loves and conjures up magic. It is just after the Second World War and Marvellous Ways, a 90 year old woman, is living by herself next to a creek in a woody, remote area of Cornwall. She was a midwife and a healer and she has a touch of magic about her. She knows things... And she knows she's waiting for something but she doesn't know what. Francis Drake is a 28 year old soldier who has just returned from France where he tried to forget what he saw. After suffering another traumatic event in London, Drake loses himself. Marvellous' finds him in a terrible state by her creek and she takes him in. Together they share her world, tell their stories, and try to heal traumas. This book seemed to have everything I could want: a strong female protagonist who's a bit odd, an interesting plot, and some magical realism thrown in. And yet it didn't hold my attention very well. The writing was beautiful and lyrical in places -- and it was desperately nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Cornwall, 1947. Marvellous Ways is a 90-year-old woman who has lived alone in a remote creek for nearly all her life. Recently she has taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She is waiting for something, she is not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it. Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the war. He's agreed to fulfil a dying man's last wish and hand-deliver a letter to the man's father in Cornwall. But Drake's journey doesn't go to plan, and sees him literally wash up in Marvellous' creek, broken in body and spirit. When Marvellous comes to his aid, an unlikely friendship grows between the two. Can Drake give Marvellous what she needs to say goodbye to the world, and can she give him what he needs to go on? Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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As if it were a school exercise, Sarah Winman chooses and polishes her adjectives and similes, and to me it all seems so forced, so fey. People I respect loved this book, so I must try it again sometime. Just not yet. ( )