Isobel English (1920–1994)
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Œuvres de Isobel English
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- English, Isobel
- Nom légal
- Braybrooke, June Guesdon
- Autres noms
- Jolliffe, June Guesdon
Braybrooke, June - Date de naissance
- 1920-06-09
- Date de décès
- 1994-05-30
- Lieu de sépulture
- Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green, London, England, UK
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
- Études
- La Retraite, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England, UK
- Professions
- writer
- Relations
- Braybrooke, Neville (husband)
Orr-Ewing, Ronald (ex-husband)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 195
- Popularité
- #112,377
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 12
- ISBN
- 4
- Favoris
- 1
The narrator, Hattie, had expected to live life alone, partially because of her family's comments and expectations, until she meets her husband Stephen. They are on their way to Ibiza for a vacation and she ponders her teen years. Her uncle, sort of a stand in for her father who died when she was young, had married a woman named Cynthia from Ibiza. Her relationship with Cynthia, which starts out close and deteriorates, also intersects with a relationship Hattie has with a much older man, Jasper. As we see the present day relationship between Hattie and Stephen and explore Ibiza with them, the past starts to reveal the present.
At the beginning of this short book, I was a bit bored. I didn't think it was really going anywhere and the dual timeline was sometimes confusing. But as I approached the end of the novella, I started suspecting something was happening. And as I said at the beginning of my review, the closing sentences cast a new light on all of Hattie's memories, for both the reader and for Hattie herself. This is one I'd like to reread, knowing the ending the second time around.… (plus d'informations)