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Wife in the North by: Judith O'Reilly List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £1.99 You Save: £6.00 (75%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780141033433 ISBN: 0141033436 Label: Penguin Manufacturer: Penguin Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: July 03, 2008 Publisher: Penguin Studio: Penguin Sales Rank: 187 Related Items:
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 Rating: - A generally good read but she does whine a lot!I started off quite unimpressed with this (because the author really does moan far too much about nothing and every time she runs out of fuel in the middle of nowhere with small children in the back of her car it's ALWAYS ENTIRELY HER OWN FAULT!)...but it grew on me a lot! It's the autobiography of a reporter who, due to wishes of her husband, agrees to leave London for Northumberland with their children. I could relate to so much of this as I too loved living in London and moving away was a wrench for me. It's the simple things you miss. You miss being able to go shopping at 7pm on a weeknight. You miss being able to pop out and get a coffee and lose yourself in the city. There's an air of anonimity which is inherant to London ... Read More: Rating:  - Wife in the NorthThis book offers much more than the jokey romp suggested on the cover. The jokes certainly are tremendous. But it also explores in fearless detail the paradoxes facing mothers raised with feminist freedoms now trying to nurture a happy family. It will speak volumes to all mothers, not just rural ones, though readers should know that it's as sad and serious as it's funny. Rating:  - tricky one, this.......gosh this book stumped me - at first I was all set to give it one star because of the womans incessant moaning and whinging on how wonderful London is blah blah blah wish she was back there yadda yadda yadda and this went on for the entire book! I pushed myself to finish it as I wanted to know if the family ever returned to London...... and yes WHY was it her husband's job to fill up the car when he's in London????? Does she never check her fuel herself....? And the fact that she was extremely well off - most of us normals wouldn't have the money to do what she and her husband did.... buy two cottages and knock them into one have the builders in for months rent a house to live in meanwhilst and then at the end of it all install the Londoners ... Read More: Rating: - Why are there no names in this book ??I liked the book to an extent, but it just felt so strange to me not to EVER mention any names of people, Husband, children etc etc, we dont know what they are called, friends we have no idea, I think the only name that was ever mentioned was that of someone that came along with the health visitor, good read but just seems a bit strange to me not getting to know the names of people in the story. Rating: - Ignore the cover....I picked this book up because I had nothing else to read and from the cover I assumed it would be some jokey 'woman goes to country side meets hialrious characters and learns to love it and herself'. I was ready to hate it. However, it was beautifully written and some parts were so sad. I disagree that the author is selfish and spoilt, she is simply someone like me who loves city life and loathes the country. I hope she gets back to London some day I really do. |
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