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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. we! love! british! authors!!!!! Expectation explores the dynamics of women’s friendships. and you add in extended families, memories, marriages, careers, infertility struggles, cheating, betrayal, loss and love and ugh you get a wonderful book! “Much of their lives is still before them. They have made mistakes, but they are not fatal. They are no longer young, but they do not feel old. They still have time, time to look backwards and time to look forwards. Life is still malleable and full of potential. The openings to the road not taken have not yet sealed up”. “They still have time to become who they are going to be”. two quotes from the book that i love. Anna Hope's writing is lovely. the topic of this book wasn't anything new, but her writing is very engaging and readable and real. these characters were everything! truly felt like i knew them personally. female friendships are important and Hope examines these friendships and all their complexities. the highs and lows. this book is also about the expectations we put on ourselves and the milestones we expect to have reached at certain points in our lives. and about the expectations we have of others, how they ultimately fall short and people stumble from the pedestals we put them on. just a beautifully written book that i loved There were some parts in this book which I liked a lot, but for the most part I didn't feel like I was immersed in the experiences of the main characters. I found myself wanting to know more about the side characters and what they were up to. For the most part it was sad and the friendships between the three protagonists seemed strained, like there was an underlying hatred between them. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In her first year of motherhood after an unplanned pregnancy, Cate is constantly exhausted, spiraling into self-doubt and postpartum anxiety. Her husband Sam seems oblivious, but maybe she'd prefer he remain in the dark. How can she admit the unthinkable--that she misses her freedom? In contrast, Hannah continues to endure round after round of unsuccessful IVF treatments. The process is taking its toll on her physically and emotionally--and, she worries, creating distance between her and her husband Nathan. She is godmother to Cate's son, but every time they get together, it's a trigger. Beautiful and unattached, Lissa is re-evaluating what it means to be an actress in her thirties. While she fiercely resists convention, she's also lonely. A chance encounter in the British Library with Nathan has her wondering if she missed her best chance at love when she introduced him to Hannah. As each woman longs for what the others seemingly possess, will their bonds of friendship sustain them in this liminal phase of their lives--or will their envy and desire tear them apart? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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There is definitely something generational about it, about being at that exact point in life when you have some history behind you in your adult life. And, it looks a lot different than what you expected.
I got this as an audiobook at first but then switched to a Kindle version because the language was so beautiful I wanted to go back to certain sentences to read them all over. The plot was not very original, that's true. But, in this book, the plot is just a vehicle. The real value is in the unsaid, between the lines. Tiny reflections, passing thoughts, seemingly unimportant actions.
After months of reading books without much emotional depth (despite it always being promised on the blurb), this one packed a punch. There were some insanely well-written passages, never overly sentimental, but really deep.
This is a piece of women's fiction I love to read and that I would love to reread.
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