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Una coppia profondamente in crisi, lei architetto, lui giornalista: con tre figli, non solo non si possono permettere di divorziare, ma anche vivere a Londra è diventato per loro quasi proibitivo. Quando lei perde il lavoro e il giornale di lui viene chiuso, c’è un’unica via di uscita: affittare la casa in cui vivono (venderla pare impossibile, se non a un prezzo ridicolo) e, con quei soldi, affittare una casa molto più economica, di certo fuori Londra. La famiglia si ritrova così in mezzo alla campagna del Devon e di fronte a una realtà molto diversa da quella della capitale, in cui si uniscono disperazione e miseria. In più, sulla loro casa aleggia un mistero, legato alla morte del proprietario precedente…
- ISBN: 8833210219
- Casa Editrice: astoria
- Pagine: 528
- Data di uscita: 21-02-2019
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Waking with fortitude, living with compromise and sleeping with stress is normal for an architect in Britain. Even during the best of times, Lottie has spent weeks drawing up plans for prospects over which clients have then backtracked, changed their minds and cancelled. Experience has taught her
Whaaaaat?!!! Seriously what just happened.... I HATE it when authors/editors do that. This was a seriously good read - a voice that was very fresh and original dealing sensitively (whilst at the same time being a page-turner) with family relationships, love, marriage & modern-day Britain. It was defin Leggi tutto
The book felt so much longer than it actually is without ever feeling like a lot of happening. Then you get near the end and realise you are completely wrong. It really does sneak up on you. There are so many layers to it with various points of view as told by the characters stories but also the vie Leggi tutto
'Inside a great novel, or poem, or play,' he told Xan, 'there is no time, only a place of joy where readers may meet and embrace each other. To share a love of reading is to share the best love of all, because there is no democracy of taste, there is one of feeling.' One sign of how engaged I am with Leggi tutto
An extraordinarily readable, engaging and gripping tale, but less for its plot than its brilliantly observed and executed look at Britain today. Ostensibly, this is a mystery surrounding a Devon farmhouse - a secret every local knows, but not the once-well-off London family who find themselves livin Leggi tutto
The Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig Actually I made a mistake with this book. I settled down to read this expecting a light-hearted tale relating the trials and tribulations of Quentin and Lottie Bredlin as they desert London and move to Devon in an effort to consolidate their finances and their divo Leggi tutto
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