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 Solace - Nicci Gerrard
 Solace - Nicci Gerrard ... know it - a marriage that is going wrong. When she discovers that Adrian is having an affair, the family is blown apart. Solace is a story of contrasts. While Adrian finds new love and excitement, Irene spirals into exhaustion, self-destruction and a kind of madness. With their marriage in shreds and Adrian whisking their daughters on a trip of a lifetime ti Australia with his new lover, Irene finally reaches rock bottom. She decides to leave the unbearable silence of her home for a trip by herself to visit her brother Jem in France. And as Irene soon realises, being along can mean discovering freedom, elation and even in the darkest of times, finding your solace.Newest Review: ... many women that play the martyr and wasn't that sympathetic with her situation until very late on in the book. Be patient. ... more ... There are reasons for the way in which she behaves, as I suppose in real life, woman may not always play the martyr without reason. The book actually surprised me on this point so is worth sticking to, and to a certain degree opened my mind a little as to what goes on behind closed doors in a relationship that, on the surface, looks familiar and very sad.
It's a story of betrayal perhaps when Adrian falls for her friend, Frankie, though what I liked in the story was that there were always two sides to it, although the...more |
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Solace - Nicci Gerrard: TWO SIDES TO A TALE. (948 words)
by - written on 03/09/06 (Very useful, 154 readings)
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"A very clever book..... about female sexual desire....with a secret ending, had me flipping frantically back through the book trying, like the characters, to understand the past" Sunday Telegraph. I was quite surprised by the cover on this book, as it really doesn't have much relation to the story held within its' pages. Sophisticated silk nightdress against white sheets doesn't really give much of a clue as to the story, although I expected from the illustration a story with more sophistication than I got. Never judge a book by its' cover, they say, and in this instance, are right. I have never read Nicci Gerrard before and ... Read the complete review
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