The Little House

by Philippa Gregory | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 058351149x Global Overview for this book
Registered by pennydainty on 2/5/2015
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Journal Entry 1 by pennydainty on Thursday, February 5, 2015
I realised while reading this that it had been a TV series a few years ago. Nice read, good characters to love or hate and a shiver down the spine.

Blurb from back of the book :-
It was easy for Elizabeth. She married the man she loved, bore him two children and made a home for him which was the envy of their friends.

It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth’s son and then found out that, somehow, she could never quite measure up.

Isolation, deceit and betrayal fill the gaps between the two individual women and between their two worlds. In this complex psychological thriller, the disturbing depths of what women want and what women fear become all too apparent as Ruth confronts the shifting borders of her own sanity. Laying bare the truth behind the comfortable conventions of rural England, this spine-tingling novel pulses with suspense until the whiplash of the denouement

Journal Entry 2 by pennydainty at Dunecht, Scotland United Kingdom on Friday, February 20, 2015

Released 9 yrs ago (2/21/2015 UTC) at Dunecht, Scotland United Kingdom

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This one is on the way to Minneapolis as part of the Women in fiction RABCK. ENJOY and happy bookcrossing.

Journal Entry 3 by JudySlump612 at Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on Saturday, March 7, 2015
Arrived here safely today, after its journey across the pond. Many thanks!

Journal Entry 4 by JudySlump612 at Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on Friday, November 24, 2017
This was kind of disappointing to me. Having read plenty of Gregory's historical fiction, I admire her witty and subtle writing style, but I didn't find that here. However, it's still an interesting story.

Through bad luck and bad timing, Ruth finds herself trapped in so many ways. Her chief problem is her mother-in-law Elizabeth, a Martha-Stewart-type monster. Neither her husband or her father-in-law have any interest in challenging Elizabeth, who will smoothly smile and nod at Ruth and then go on and do just as she pleases. So the ending didn't surprise me, although it satisfied me.

Then I kept re-reading the very short last chapter, in which it appears that Ruth is turning into another Elizabeth. Was it because Ruth saw how rewarding that role could be? Was it a response to the passivity of the two men - power rushing in to fill the vacuum? Was it Elizabeth's final triumph, manipulating Ruth into the kind of person Elizabeth thought she ought to be?

This is all just one person's opinion. Future readers, what do YOU think?

Released 6 yrs ago (11/24/2017 UTC) at Precision Grind Coffee House (E. Franklin Ave & 23rd) in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

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