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Indlæser... Me and My Sisters (The Devlin Sisters) (udgave 2012)af Sinead Moriarty (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. An entertaining read about the trials of 3 sisters living 3 very different lives. How they end up reconnecting and supporting each other after years of taking different paths and holding different attitudes to life. ( ) This is quite a readable book, about an Irish family with three very different sisters, all around forty. They're rather caricatured: one ultra-successful highly intelligent lawyer who likes to be in control, one harassed mother of triplets plus a toddler, and one ex-model who married a millionaire and spends her time shopping and getting beauty treatments. Oh, and a token tree-hugging brother. Then crises hit them all in different ways and they discover just how important their relationships with each other are. Again it's rather stereotyped; for instance, the sister who likes to be in control finds herself in a situation where she can no longer control her life. And, because it's that kind of book, it's fairly certain that everything will work out fine in the end. All of which would be fine, and - other things being equal - I would award it four stars despite the stereotypes. It was, for the most part, well written, changing viewpoint each chapter, gradually builing up the story. There are some quite likeable minor characters, and the triplets are so utterly dreadful that they provide a bit of light relief. But unfortunately a lot of the conversations were unrealistic, peppered with 'she sighed' and 'he noted' and 'she grinned' and other annoying words that jarred. I was also mystified why, every few pages, people 'roared laughing' (I assume an Irish phrase meaning 'roared with laughter') when situations were mildly amusing or ironic and a smile would have been more appropriate. Worse, I found the youngest sister totally unbelievable when her crisis hit, behaving like a spoilt self-centred brat. Up to that point she had been shallow but likeable; her character change did not work, nor did her eventual acceptance of the situation. I found the level of bad language unpleasantly high, too. Still, it raises some interesting issues about single parenthood and the importance of having aims in life, and despite the annoying conversational style, it's a very readable book. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Belongs to SeriesDevlin Sisters (1)
Sinéad Moriarty's heart-warming seventh novel, Me and My Sisters, is the story of how three sisters discover that when the chips are down, no-one will be there for you in quite the same way as a sister who knows you better than you know yourself. It mixes the worldly wit of Jane Green with the down-to-earth insight of Marian Keyes in a story that will have readers thinking again about just how important their sisters are to them. Or wishing they had sisters if they don't. There's more than one way of being a modern woman, not that the Devlin sisters would admit it ... Harassed mum Julie used to be the easy-going one, but now she is struggling to keep sane. She needs support, but how could her sisters understand? After all, their lives are perfect. One drunken mistake is jeopardising everything lawyer Louise has worked so hard for. For a control freak like her, being out of control is terrifying. Despite herself, she too needs her sisters. And gorgeous Sophie's perfect designer lifestyle is falling apart at the seams. She can hardly bring herself to tell the other two the trouble she's in. The Devlin sisters think they have little in common. They might just be in for some big surprises ... No library descriptions found. |
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