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Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons - Lorna Landvik

 

Description: ISBN 0345475690 / Author: Lorna Landvik / Genre: Fiction

Newest Review: ... to hide her shame. One has a husband who beats her while one has a psychic ability to discover when things are happening, ... more

 ... like her husband's affair. The other longs for a baby and adopts her niece's unwanted child, while the other is a staunch human rights protester yet all is not well in her family or even sometimes in her heart. Together these intricate, well-described characters create a bond together in which it is them against the world, learning more about each other through the ages - from the 60s to the 90s. What makes this book so special though is that it isn't just some uninspiring chick-lit about love life and fri...more

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Premium Review Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons - Lorna Landvik: Shake your bon-bon (586 words)
by gaultier100 - written on 09/09/04 (Very useful, 274 readings)
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To say I didn't quite know what to expect when I started reading this book is an understatement. A gift from a friend, it had a surprising unfathomable title that gave away no clues as to what lay inside. While I know you're never meant to judge a book by its cover, I did and so, that meant that when I finally started reading it I was even more intrigued that I think I would've been. Set in Minneapolis, AHEB is essentially a tale of five women who live in the same sleepy neighbourhood who end up forming a reading group which is dubbed by their husbands as angry housewives just sitting around and eating bon-bons. However they are anything but and each ...

 

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