Journal Entry 1 by lellie from Trimley St Mary, Suffolk United Kingdom on Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Picked up this morning in a charity shop trawl.

America in the Sixties is an era of radical upheaval - of civil rights protests and anti-war marches; of sexual liberation and hallucinogenic drugs. More tellingly, it was a time when you weren't supposed to trust anyone over the age of thirty; when, if you were young, you rebelled against your parents and their conservative values. But not Hannah Buchan. Hannah is a great disappointment to her famous radical father and painter mother. Because instead of mounting the barricades and embracing this age of profound social change, she wants nothing more than to marry her doctor boyfriend and raise a family in a small town. Hannah gets her wish. But once installed as the doctor's wife in a nowhere corner of Maine, boredom sets in ...until an unforeseen moment of personal rebellion changes everything. Especially as Hannah is forced into breaking the law. For decades, this one transgression in an otherwise faultless life remains buried. But then, in the charged atmosphere of America after 9/11, her secret comes out and her life goes into freefall.



Not a bad yarn. I like the way Kennedys novels gain pace. By the time you reach the last half of the book it's unputdownable.

I'm not altogether comfortable with his portrayal of women. His women are always quite unfeminine and his men a bit wimpy.

That said however I would still recommend this as a pacy page turner. 

Journal Entry 2 by lellie at a BookMooch, a fellow bookmoocher -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, April 04, 2010

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Journal Entry 3 by Iojima from Nyons, Rhône-Alpes France on Saturday, April 17, 2010

Received via BookMooch. Thank you. 

Journal Entry 4 by Iojima at Nyons, Rhône-Alpes France on Thursday, October 07, 2010

Loved it. I think she turned out all right and I can't believe a tale of post-partum depression could be so well written by a man. Thank you. 

Journal Entry 5 by Iojima at Nyons, Rhône-Alpes France on Thursday, October 07, 2010

Can't even remember now! But I know I raced through it. I like Kennedy a lot. Thank you.