After a long and happy marriage, Frances is plunged into mourning when her husband dies leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. She is submerged in her own loss, until, shocked into feeling by the revelations and sufferings of others, she is drawn into the sunlight of new hope.
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Penelope Lively has written many prize-winning novels for adults and children. They include: The Road To Lichfield, According To Mark, Moon Tiger (which won the 1987 Booker Prize), Heat Wave, Spiderweb, The Photograph, Making It Up and Consequences. Penelope Lively lives in London.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Learning to move on,
By Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Perfect Happiness (Paperback)
Frances Brooklyn has just lost her beloved husband Stephen to a heart attack, and she is adrift in the world trying to cope. Her sister-in-law Zoe, her niece Tabitha, and her adopted son Henry are all there for her, but Stephen - the memory of Stephen - consumes her. Near the end she meets a nice man named Morris, which just might develop into something, but more importantly Frances no longer has the need to dwell in the past. The future beckons. A quietly captivating, well-written novel.
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Empathetic,
By algo41 "algo41" (philadelphia, pa United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Perfect Happiness (Hardcover)
Lively exercises her powers of empathy to portray a woman suffering intense loss over the death of her husband. At times I got a little tired of the woman, but then she begins to recover from the worst of her grief, and other characters become a little more important. The long paragraph with which the novel ends is exceptional - if you don't read the book, at least read that paragraph
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Sad but hopeful,
By A Customer
This review is from: Perfect Happiness (Hardcover)
Perfect Happiness is about just that. A widow trys to be happy after her husband dies. Lively's descriptions of how time heals is comfortingly accurate.
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