Amazon.co.uk Review
This fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, captured in Daisy's vivacious yet reflective voice, has been winning over readers since its publication in 1995, when it won the Pulitzer Prize. After a youth marked by sudden death and loss, Daisy escapes into conventionality as a middle-class wife and mother. Years later she becomes a successful gardening columnist and experiences the kind of awakening that thousands of her contemporaries in mid-century yearned for but missed in alcoholism, marital infidelity and bridge clubs. The events of Daisy's life, however, are less compelling than her rich, vividly described inner life-- from her memories of her adoptive mother to her awareness of impending death. Shields' sensuous prose and her deft characterizations have made this, her sixth novel, her most successful yet.

Mailing to another bookcrosser - may as well make the most of the pre-paid satchel.

Received today in the mail - thank you so much!

Neesy

Picked up at the Brisbane October monthly meetup.

Picked up at lunch yesterday, looks interesting.

One of those slow moving but no less interesting accounts of lives. Uplifting at times, terribly realistic at others. I enjoyed how it was described by through several people's eyes, and how differently a situation can be seen and described.
The Brisbane BC group is meeting on Sunday so I'll bring it back to the group then.