I personaggi sono bizzarri e ci si affeziona velocemente, la storia molto originale e godibilissima. I think it help reading this when I was in my thirties, that way you can really empathise with how life turns out for some of the characters. Clare began her career as a secretary at the publisher André Deutsch, when Diana Athill was still at the helm.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. review: Quirky book, follows a formula I have seen before - shy quiet lonely person gets drawn into a colourful family, and eventually they are treated as a member of the family, before some tragedy results in their total ejection and rejection. Abigail thought she'd banished the ghost of her life with them and the catastrophe that ended it, but thirteen years later a chance encounter forces her to acknowledge that the spell is far from broken.Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. It’s a tribute to the butterfly effect - what major consequences and echoes can be produced by a series of minor events in the past. Abigail Jex never expected to see any of the Radley household again, and thought that she'd banished the ghost of her life with them, and the catastrophe that ended it, but thirteen years later, a chance encounter forces her to acknowledge that the spell is far from broken. You never know what goes on behind closed doors, and never has this been more true than in the story of Abigail Jex (née Onions) and her memories of her childhood friend Frances Radley.

I'm deducting half a star because Abigail's mother wasn't entirely consistent- but maybe she just naturally mellowed with age?I bought this because it came up on the recommendations and after reading the blurb I thought I'd give it a go. The Radley’s were extraordinary, captivating creatures transplanted from a bohemian corner of North London to outer suburbia, and the young Abigail found herself drawn into their magic circle: the eccentric Frances, her new best friend; Frances’ mother, the liberated, headstrong Lexi; and of course the brilliant, beautiful Rad. The party was being given by a girl at school, and in recognition of the shortage of available males we had all been instructed to “bring a boy.

I read Small Pleasures by the same author earlier this year and absolutely loved it so it was an easy decision to give this book a go. In 1999, her novel Learning to Swim won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. It’s a story about friendship and inter-family relationships and although the pace is fairly slow at times the author draws you in with her descriptive style of writing. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. If you are new to this author I strongly recommend "In a Good Light" as well as "Small Pleasures" instead.It is a great examination of how the decisions we made, and the people we meet, in our teenage years can shape our future (and of how things don't always turn out as we expect). In dramatic contrast to her own conventional family, the Radley's were extraordinary, captivating creatures transplanted from a bohemian corner of North London to outer suburbia, and the young Abigail found herself drawn into their magic circle: the eccentric Frances, her new best friend; Frances' mother, the liberated, headstrong Lexi; and of course the brilliant, beautiful Rad. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. The fact that they completely contrasted with her own family is a factor, but it doesn't seem enough. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.