Customer Reviews

Yesterday's Child (Signet)

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Why is this book out of print? Barbara Wood bring out such an unusual storyline in this haunting tale. A young woman goes back to her grand mothers house in England to what she thinks is to be a boring visit with an old and dying grandfather. The grandfathers' family is taboo and never discussed, it's dark secrets never revealed, until they start playing their life out infront of her eyes. Is she going mad? Eventually she doesn't care, because the lives she sees...... well that would be telling, wouldn't it! I thought it was a good story and a great read!

I have this book in paperback. It is my all time favourite historical romance novel. Have read it several times over the years and will yet again. A quick but entertaining read!

I'm a huge Barbara Wood fan, but this novel is awful. It's so repetitive! It's a creepy, almost incestuous story. Choose from her MANY other terrific books; skip this one!

I've read just about every Barbara Wood novel and am a real Wood fan but this book was a disappointment. I agree with the reviewer who said that Virgins of Paradise is a beautiful work and Yesterday's Child isn't up to the author's usual standards.
I kept reading, hoping that the book would reel me in but it just didn't! I would pass on this one and choose any of Ms. Wood's other novels.

I really love Barbara Wood. I have read many of her books and found most of them very readable and enjoyable. This one is not up to her standards. Repetative! I found myself skipping paragraphs! I will read Sacred Ground next. I hope it is better. If you want a good Barbara Wood-try The Dreaming or Virgins of Paradise.

I just read this book in German (I am a German exchange student, 16 years of age) over the last weekend. I couln't lay it out of my hand until I knew what really happened. I am a big fan of Barbara Wood's books, but this one bount me more than I could imagine. It absorbed me so much. I advise it to everyone, no matter which age or what kind of books prefered. This one is incredible!