The Children's Hour
by Marcia Willett | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0552150622 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0552150622 Global Overview for this book
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Journal Entry 1 by Molyneux at Costa Coffee in Summertown, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Monday, January 26, 2009
Released 15 yrs ago (1/26/2009 UTC) at Costa Coffee in Summertown, Oxfordshire United Kingdom
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Placed on the book exchange shelves in Costa Coffee
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Placed on the book exchange shelves in Costa Coffee
If this is your introduction to Bookcrossing, welcome. Please make as few or as many comments about the book as you wish. The book is now yours to do with as you choose. Keep it, pass it on, but please leave the label, so it can keep in touch with us. If you would like to know what happens to the book after you have passed it on, then do join - it's free, private and it's fun!
And if you do choose to join, I hope you'll consider using me molyneux, as your referring member.
I hope whoever finds this book enjoys it!
A family's secrets are finally aired as three aging sisters reunite in an idyllic country-house setting: another in the cozy, milk-and-cookies genre. The secrets that have been hidden over the years are the genteel kind: adultery, a pregnancy, an argument that may have caused a fatal accident, nothing too sordid. But all secrets bear their freight of hurt, so as siblings Mina, Nest, and Georgie revisit the past, the experience is often painful. The story begins when Georgie's daughter Helena asks her aunts to look after her mother, who has developed Alzheimer's, until space in a nursing home becomes available. Mina is a widow; Nest, the unmarried youngest, has been confined to a wheelchair since the car accident that took the lives of their sister Henrietta and her husband Connor. Georgie has always spoken of secrets that only she knows, and Nest is especially worried about what she might now say. Georgie is often lucid, but taking care of her exhausts Mina, who confides her concerns each night via e-mail to Elyot, whom she met in an online support group. As weeks pass, the sisters learn the truth about their mother Lydia's affair with Timothy, a friend of their father's. While Dad was living in London with his mistress, Timothy fell in love with Lydia and fathered one of the siblings. Mina ruefully recalls how she broke up with her true love, a soldier, while Nest remembers her deep feelings for the much older Connor. He gave up Nest when he was introduced to her glamorous sister Henrietta, but not before getting her pregnant; a suitable home was found for the resulting daughter. Parentages are revealed, as well as new and old loves.
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A family's secrets are finally aired as three aging sisters reunite in an idyllic country-house setting: another in the cozy, milk-and-cookies genre. The secrets that have been hidden over the years are the genteel kind: adultery, a pregnancy, an argument that may have caused a fatal accident, nothing too sordid. But all secrets bear their freight of hurt, so as siblings Mina, Nest, and Georgie revisit the past, the experience is often painful. The story begins when Georgie's daughter Helena asks her aunts to look after her mother, who has developed Alzheimer's, until space in a nursing home becomes available. Mina is a widow; Nest, the unmarried youngest, has been confined to a wheelchair since the car accident that took the lives of their sister Henrietta and her husband Connor. Georgie has always spoken of secrets that only she knows, and Nest is especially worried about what she might now say. Georgie is often lucid, but taking care of her exhausts Mina, who confides her concerns each night via e-mail to Elyot, whom she met in an online support group. As weeks pass, the sisters learn the truth about their mother Lydia's affair with Timothy, a friend of their father's. While Dad was living in London with his mistress, Timothy fell in love with Lydia and fathered one of the siblings. Mina ruefully recalls how she broke up with her true love, a soldier, while Nest remembers her deep feelings for the much older Connor. He gave up Nest when he was introduced to her glamorous sister Henrietta, but not before getting her pregnant; a suitable home was found for the resulting daughter. Parentages are revealed, as well as new and old loves.
Click here to find out more about BookCrossing in the Oxford/Berkshire area
Found this on the exchange shelf at Costa Coffee, Summertown today. I was soooo excited when I saw that it was a BC book. I then remembered Molyneux had said she was leaving one. Still, it's been found. I will read it and release again!
Started this last night and found that it's missing quite a handful of pages as some naughty person has torn them out, probably during it's former life as a library book. It will be going to book heaven.
