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4.0 out of 5 stars
Potrait of a doctor, saint and sinner,
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This review is from: Thursday Afternoons (Paperback)
Monica Dickens is one of those authors who can make someone's boring, everyday life into a captivating narrative. "Thursday Afternoons" is the story of a middle-aged GP, successful in his career but dissatisfied with life. At first Steven sounds like a great guy surrounded by a bunch of silly people - the adoring but incompetent trainee nurse, his insipid worrywart of a wife, jolly friends who can't understand his artistic ambitions, various whiny patients, the creepily silent battered woman his wife hires as a maid. The minor characters are almost more three-dimensional than Steven himself. But as the story develops, we see that he too has a remarkably selfish side, illustrated for instance by his reluctance to answer the phone resulting in the death of a client's baby.I'm not sure what to make of the ending - I can't say I didn't see that one coming so it wasn't a deus ex machina or a gratuitious "twist" but it was certainly unexpected. |
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Thursday Afternoons by Monica Dickens (Paperback - 1977)
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