Wise Children
2 journalers for this copy...
Given by TiffanyAching to read, register and release.
What a glorious, funny, messy, mixed up book!
With a hat tip to Shakespeare, this is full of twins and mistaken parenthood and laughter.
Nora and Dora Chance - the Lucky Chances - are twin sisters born in the early 20th century. Their mother dies in childbirth and they are brought up by their 'grandmother' their mother's landlady. Claimed as the children of Peregrine Hazzard, they are actually the children of his twin brother Melchior. Confused yet? There are two more sets of twins with dubious parentage as well as numerous marriages and affairs!
The joy of this is that it's written as the memoir of Dora looking back on the Chance girls life as 'hoofers' on stage and all their wonderous adventures: some funny, some happy, some tragic.
It looked so unprepossing when I acquired it (another one given to me in a 'box of books'), but I'm delighted I read this one especially when I realised it was another one on the various great books lists.
Listed in the 1001 books you must read before you die http://www.listology.com/list/1001-books-you-must-read-you-die
Listed in The Guardian's 1000 best novels http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction
What a glorious, funny, messy, mixed up book!
With a hat tip to Shakespeare, this is full of twins and mistaken parenthood and laughter.
Nora and Dora Chance - the Lucky Chances - are twin sisters born in the early 20th century. Their mother dies in childbirth and they are brought up by their 'grandmother' their mother's landlady. Claimed as the children of Peregrine Hazzard, they are actually the children of his twin brother Melchior. Confused yet? There are two more sets of twins with dubious parentage as well as numerous marriages and affairs!
The joy of this is that it's written as the memoir of Dora looking back on the Chance girls life as 'hoofers' on stage and all their wonderous adventures: some funny, some happy, some tragic.
It looked so unprepossing when I acquired it (another one given to me in a 'box of books'), but I'm delighted I read this one especially when I realised it was another one on the various great books lists.
Listed in the 1001 books you must read before you die http://www.listology.com/list/1001-books-you-must-read-you-die
Listed in The Guardian's 1000 best novels http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction
Passing to Carole at next meetup
Collected at Sunday meet up.
