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Chargement... The Quintland Sisterspar Shelley Wood
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) mazda502001 | Dec 2, 2023 |  The novel is told through journal entries done by Emma, newspaper articles about the Quintuplets, and letters that are two and from Emma from a few characters. I liked this writing mostly because I liked Emma's voice. She has this persona about her where she's invisible to a lot of people and therefore, she tends to watch rather than engage and she has a lot to say about it. As much as I loved reading about the babies, I wanted Emma to spread her wings and succeed just as much. The Epilogue left a few answers but it led me to do some research of my own and I don't ever mind doing that. Otherwise, I enjoyed being a part of the small bubble that was Quintland for the time Emma was there. The novel was a bit heartbreaking with shocking and unforgettable details that have stayed with me. ( ) oldandnewbooksmell | Sep 24, 2021 | The Dionne quintuplets were born in a small town in Northern Ontario in 1934. It was amazing that they all lived. However, not long after they were born, they were taken from the parents to live across the street in a building built to keep them safe and healthy. 17-year old Emma was there when they were born to help the midwife. She becomes a nurse and is one of a revolving door of nurses and teachers (in addition to Dr. Dafoe and others) to help take care of the girls. They’ve immediately become sensations, being so rare. People come from all over to see the girls in their purpose-built play room, so the girls are visible to outsiders, but the visitors aren’t visible to the girls. The story is told in diary form from Emma’s point of view up until the girls are 5-years old. It is interspersed with real newspaper articles. It’s a sad story, as the parents rarely had access to see their daughters. Since this is fiction, I don’t really know what the parents were like, but I waffled between feeling bad for them and really not liking them, as they were very strict and the father seemed more interested in the money and control of the girls’ lives. I did appreciate the historical note. Emma was, as I’d suspected, not a real person. I was surprised at the end, but she did put a bit into the historical note that might help explain. I definitely want to find and read some nonfiction on the Dionne quintuplets. ( ) LibraryCin | Dec 2, 2020 |  ) LDVoorberg | Nov 22, 2020 | This started out strong, then gradually drifted off the rails. This genuinely just felt like a personal project, unplanned, unedited, that Wood wrote and wrote and wrote for fun until she got bored and then dropped the thing. It was nice and relaxing to read about this cozy, charming little life, but it never had a point, and that gets exhausting when your book is nearly 500 pages. I lost my patience (but hey...not my hope) at about 60%, and sadly never offered much more than what I was initially given. The criticism of the exploitation of the sisters was paper-thin, and didn't offer enough fiction to make a story that stood on its own with this history as a setting. Nothing happened, and while the nothing was amusing enough per-chapter and on its own, still, nothing happened. (Also not wild about people's real life trauma being turned into a story for profit (ironic?), especially when members are still alive, and demonizing real people for your plot. That's a little bit my fault for not thinking hard enough about my opinion before picking this up, however, and not understanding enough of the Dionne story. Still gave me the CREEPS.) Ah, well. I wish I dropped this earlier. It was sweet in its own way, but rambling, shallow, and ultimately sort of pointless. (  ) Chyvalrys | Aug 5, 2020 | Distinctions
Fiction.
Literature.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: "A historical novel that will enthrall you... I was utterly captivated..." â?? Joanna Goodman, author of The Home for Unwanted Girls AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER For fans of Sold on a Monday or The Home for Unwanted Girls, Shelley Wood's novel tells the story of the Dionne Quintuplets, the world's first identical quintuplets to survive birth, told from the perspective of a midwife in training who helps bring them into the world. Reluctant midwife Emma Trimpany is just 17 when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne quintuplets: five tiny miracles born to French farmers in hardscrabble Northern Ontario in 1934. Emma cares for them through their perilous first days and when the government decides to remove the babies from their francophone parents, making them wards of the British king, Emma signs on as their nurse. Over 6,000 daily visitors come to ogle the identical "Quints" playing in their custom-built playground; at the height of the Great Depression, the tourism and advertising dollars pour in. While the rest of the world delights in their sameness, Emma sees each girl as unique: Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Marie, and Ã?milie. With her quirky eye for detail, Emma records every strange twist of events in her private journals. As the fight over custody and revenues turns increasingly explosive, Emma is torn between the fishbowl sanctuary of Quintland and the wider world, now teetering on the brink of war. Steeped in research, The Quintland Sisters is a novel of love, heartache, resilience, and enduring sisterhoodâ??a fictional, coming-of-age story bound up in one of the strangest true tales of the past cen Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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