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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Re-read Sept 23 Very intimate mother- daughter and mother’s sister relationships. Great care to acknowledge aunt’s care and sacrifice . My mother also took intellectual care. My nana emotional care. 16:09:23 I chose this book by Peggy Frew because I read that she had won one of The Age short story competitions and the comments on the story were about how succinct it was. I’m sorry I couldn’t find the story as I think it would have been much better than this drawn-out novel, yet another novel where I feel no empathy, let alone sympathy for the protagonists. We see how damaged Silver is by her mother’s selfish behaviour but then Silver’s own behaviour becomes equally selfish. Perhaps this is the point Frew is making but it doesn’t make for an enjoyable novel. Unfortunately it’s just another novel I’m glad I’ve finished and glad I didn’t buy. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. Really enjoyable coming of age story about a girl who grows up on various communes in Australia with her young mother. An interesting look into this world and time period. As you can imagine, the lifestyle of constantly moving from place to place, and never having a home of your own, is difficult for a child, and creates a complicated relationship with her mother (and the various men she gets involved with). I felt an attachment to the main character and wanted so badly for her to have a nice, happy life! Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. Hope Farm, a hippy commune, embraces Silver and her mother Ishtar as one of their own. Drawn there by a man known as Miller, this is Ishtar's latest attempt to recreate her life by following a man. Pregnant by a married man as a teenager, Ishtar's parents send her to a convent in Brisbane to have the baby, put it up for adoption, and return home. While there, she is fascinated by a group of hippies giving out pamphlets about 'The Path'. She senses safety there and asks if they can help her. Once the baby is born, a girl, Ishtar (who changes her name once she joins the commune) knows both that she cannot give her up and that she is not going to be welcomed back home. So she follows the calm and free spirited women who help her to understand her baby, Silver, and the life she is now to live. Told from both Ishtar and Silver's point of view, the reader is carried away on the pain and longing of both journeys.....parallel as Silver is never able to feel connected to her mother. Beautifully written. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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It is the winter of 1985. Hope Farm sticks out of the ragged landscape like a decaying tooth, its weatherboard walls sagging into the undergrowth. Silver's mother, Ishtar, has fallen for the charismatic Miller, and the three of them have moved to the rural hippie commune to make a new start. But here, at just thirteen, she is thrust into an unrelenting adult world, and the walls begin to come tumbling down, with deadly consequences. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Già recensito in anteprima su LibraryThingIl libro di Peggy Frew Hope Farm è stato disponibile in LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Discussioni correntiNessunoCopertine popolari
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.92Literature English English fiction Modern Period 2000-Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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