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It's not that Martha Bone doesn't like children. It's more that they don't fit into her world: her shop, with its succession of beautiful distressed antiques; her flat, with its creamy sofa, its unwashable linen scatter-cushions, its aura of oatmeal and sand. Her sisters don't understand how she can live her life as she does, shut away like that, so emotionally enclosed, but Martha smoothes the Durham quilt on her Victorian cast-iron bed and thinks everything looks just fine. More than fine. Perfect.
But then things start happening. A death. A cat. A girl with chocolately fingers. A box of old letters. The re-emergence of an old boyfriend. Martha begins to investigate her past and discovers you can only paper over the cracks for so long.
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Review:
Durrant's first novel Having It and Eating It, which sold 140,000 copies, featured a stay-at-home mother questioning her life. With this second effort, the protagonist is 38, single, childless, and worships the god of small, desirable things, which she sells in her antique shop. When her stepfather dies and a memory box of her old letters is returned to her, a similar process of questioning begins. As a sign of the current times, the website Friends Reunited plays a part in digging up the past. Durrant is an accomplished wordsmith and social commentator making a gentle sashay through a microcosm of a well-ordered life that is given a mild shaking. A quiet, introspective read without momentous incident but pleasant and perspicacious.
Book Description:
From the author of the hugely successful HAVING IT AND EATING IT, a brilliantly-observed, wry tale of a woman's misplaced passion for her perfect house and her perfect ex-boyfriend.
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- PublisherSphere
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0316725706
- ISBN 13 9780316725705
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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