Il viaggio verso casa

I liked this books but I didn't love it. I don't think it was a very veeeery interesting book or a "WOW" book. It has a beautiful and well written story but the whole book is about one specific subject and it isn't very dinamic, it's focused mainly in the same thing and that's about it.

I can understand why this book wouldn’t be everybody’s cup of tea. Its characters are very introspective, there’s a lot of time hopping from past to present and back again, and it’s often sad. However, I thought this was an excellent read, a speculative look at the inner workings of an elderly woman Leggi tutto

Certi libri, in certi momenti, possono avere quasi un effetto terapeutico. Ha tanto da dire questo libro: il rapporto con la propria madre condiziona il proprio essere donna, il proprio essere madre. Il confronto che deriva da generazioni diverse, esperienze diverse ma vissuto comune costringe all'an Leggi tutto

Un libro che ha avuto un effetto inaspettato su di me. Sono partita pensando a un romanzo scorrevole, leggero e mi sono ritrovata a fare delle riflessione su la vita, i rapporti, i sogni/le ambizioni, le concessioni, i fraintendimenti, i ripensamenti. La scrittura è molto scorrevole e le descrizioni Leggi tutto

Beautiful and touching book! It is a journey through the memories and the past, which lets the reader rebuild piece by piece the main moments Alice lived, her relationship with her daughter Beth and son James. The letters she wrote to Beth get the reader more involved in her thoughts, feelings and e Leggi tutto

I absolutely LOVED this book! I’ve re-read it at different times in my life and it has meant something different on each occasion, especially as my daughter has grown from child to woman and my mother into old age, often sad at times but poignantly lovely at the same time? A very thought provoking r Leggi tutto

bel libro di analisi psicologica del rapporto madre figlia; comincio a pensare che, oltre al rapporto con mia mamma, devo guardare quello con i miei fgli - il maschio soprattutto

Alice is a 70-something year old mother & grandmother who is dying. Beth (Elizabeth), her only daughter left home and her life is now in England while James, the only son, still lives in Dublin and gets to see his mother often. Beth returns home after learning the news of her mother's condition and

Not quite what I expected from book club - deeper than chic-lit, but quite light. Beth, a 40+y.o. woman,returns to Dublin from her successful life in London to nurse her dying mother. The novel tells the story of their troubled relationship, and their relationship with James, Beth's brother. I reall Leggi tutto

This is a well-told story of a difficult mother-daughter relationship and the damage done within the family as much by things that are said as by things left unsaid. I think that although the main narrator is not easy to like or sympathise with you continue to read to discover how she has developed