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Quando Charlotte, un'anziana professoressa in pensione, molto indipendente, subisce uno scippo e cadendo si rompe l'anca, è costretta a trasferirsi per il tempo della convalescenza a casa della figlia Rose. Rose, dunque, per assistere la madre, non può accompagnare a un'importante conferenza Lord Henry, prestigioso accademico di storia dell'Ottocento, che sceglie di sostituirla come segretaria con la nipote Marion. Marion manda quindi un sms a Jeremy, il suo amante, per comunicargli che non potrà andare al loro appuntamento, sms che viene intercettato da Stella, la moglie di Jeremy, che a sua volta... Una concatenazione di eventi fortuiti dà luogo, in questo romanzo brillante e avvincente, a una serie di cambiamenti nelle esistenze dei protagonisti, e regala al lettore una riflessione profonda sui momenti di svolta e le possibili alternative che la vita ci offre.
- ISBN: 8860888409
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 286
- Data di uscita: 21-06-2012
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This wretched novel begins with the mugging of an old lady and it appears I may be in the process of repeating that loathsome crime as Dame Penelope Lively was 78 when she wrote it. It is not nice to put the boot into such a poor defenceless old creature lying there with only a damehood, a Booker Pr Leggi tutto
Around the 100 page mark I was wondering with a growing apathy what was at stake in this novel. All the characters seemed stuck at a red light. Then, of a sudden, the lights turned to green and it flourished into life and I grew immensely fond of all the characters. The novel begins when an elderly
Oh, I dearly loved this book about an event which spawned a series of follow-on events, some of which could be termed momentous, in the context of a life. The story was funny and true and ridiculous and painful and all those things that life can be. It was comforting to hear about folks whose lives
I went ahead and marked this five stars for "amazing," because it's rare that a contemporary novel is quotable. The main character is an educated British woman in her seventies, recovering from a mugging. First sentence: The pavement rises up and hits her. Terrific, right? Here's a bit from when she Leggi tutto
A lovely, character driven study in which life is impacted by Charlotte’s mugging and injury. Set in motion is a chain of events that require multiple characters to make thoughtful decisions and choices. Aging parents, romantic affairs, financial crises, and academian jealousies are human complicati Leggi tutto
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