Web of Angels
Registered by boomda181 on 7/7/2013
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Just as Jodi Picoult tackles controversial contemporary issues in her compelling domestic dramas, in Web of Angels bestselling novelist Lilian Nattel explores the vivid reality of what used to be called multiple personality disorder. A Vintage Canada trade paperback original.
On the surface of things, Sharon Lewis is a lot like any other happily married mother of 3: she is the beating heart of a house full of kids, cooking and chaos, the one who always knows the after-school practice schedule, where her husband put the car keys and who needs a little extra TLC. Her kids and husband think she's a little spooky, actually, the way she can anticipate the tensions of any situation--and maybe they love her all the more for the extra care she gives them.
Life is definitely good until the morning Heather Edwards, a pregnant teenaged friend of the family, kills herself. The reverberations of that act, and the ugly secrets that sparked it, prove deeply unsettling to the whole family, and stir up Sharon's own troubling secret: she has DID, or dissociative identity disorder. And the multiples inside the woman the world knows as Sharon seem to know what happened to Heather, and what may be happening to Heather's surviving sister. Will Sharon's need to protect the innocent cause her to finally come clean about her true nature with her family and friends, and not just in the anonymous chat rooms on the web where she's connected to others like herself? Will a woman with DID be able to persuade her quiet and respectable community that evil things can happen even in the nicest homes?
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I was fascinated by the story of a mom with dissociative personality disorder and how she functioned in her day to day life. It was a bonus that she was surrounded by characters who drew me further into the story.
Just as Jodi Picoult tackles controversial contemporary issues in her compelling domestic dramas, in Web of Angels bestselling novelist Lilian Nattel explores the vivid reality of what used to be called multiple personality disorder. A Vintage Canada trade paperback original.
On the surface of things, Sharon Lewis is a lot like any other happily married mother of 3: she is the beating heart of a house full of kids, cooking and chaos, the one who always knows the after-school practice schedule, where her husband put the car keys and who needs a little extra TLC. Her kids and husband think she's a little spooky, actually, the way she can anticipate the tensions of any situation--and maybe they love her all the more for the extra care she gives them.
Life is definitely good until the morning Heather Edwards, a pregnant teenaged friend of the family, kills herself. The reverberations of that act, and the ugly secrets that sparked it, prove deeply unsettling to the whole family, and stir up Sharon's own troubling secret: she has DID, or dissociative identity disorder. And the multiples inside the woman the world knows as Sharon seem to know what happened to Heather, and what may be happening to Heather's surviving sister. Will Sharon's need to protect the innocent cause her to finally come clean about her true nature with her family and friends, and not just in the anonymous chat rooms on the web where she's connected to others like herself? Will a woman with DID be able to persuade her quiet and respectable community that evil things can happen even in the nicest homes?
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I was fascinated by the story of a mom with dissociative personality disorder and how she functioned in her day to day life. It was a bonus that she was surrounded by characters who drew me further into the story.
Journal Entry 2 by boomda181 at BookObsessed.com, A book trading site -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, July 7, 2013
Released 10 yrs ago (7/7/2013 UTC) at BookObsessed.com, A book trading site -- Controlled Releases
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On its way to Spiderchic as part of the Best of Swap. Enjoy!
Journal Entry 3 by spiderchic at Droylsden, Greater Manchester United Kingdom on Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Received this book today - I'd forgotten all about it so was a lovely surprise :-) Thank You!!
Journal Entry 4 by spiderchic at Droylsden, Greater Manchester United Kingdom on Thursday, March 6, 2014
My daughter grabbed this book off my TBR bookshelf and then accidentally dropped it in the bath. I thought it was time I read it, so as soon as it dried out I did. A wonderful book. Really interesting to read about DID - thank you so much for sending it on.
