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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Learning to move on
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...
Published on August 26, 2005 by Bomojaz
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Empathetic
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...
Published 21 months ago by algo41
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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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
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
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
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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Perfect Happiness by Penelope Lively (Hardcover - 1983)
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