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An enjoyable read with an interesting premise. I thought it was a bit overlong though and the language a but 'flowery', so it could have done with a bit more editing. However it wasn't enough to spoil my enjoyment.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

My entry for the bookswap game at the meet up. Hope the winner enjoys it.

Won at the Rugby meetup bookswap game! Comes recommended by a few people so I'll try to read it within the month before releasing it for my LUCIA "women's roles in the book title" challenge.

Read this out of order (shock!) because I want to release it in the LUCIA challenge this month.

An OK read. It's one of those "issue" novels of course (man disposes of one twin; wife doesn't know her child is growing up with another woman; secrets will out - all of this on the back of the book) and as such much of the effort seems designed to fit the theme in and cover every aspect. Some of the stuff about Norah's life as representative of American Woman from the 60s to the 90s seems to just use her as an example rather than a flesh and blood character with a life of her own (dissatisfied housewife - check; takes up drinking - check; gets job - check; gets powerful career in the 80s - check) and while the descriptions of the struggles for education and other opportunities for Down's Syndrome people are worthwhile and valid, sometimes it seems a bit like the author is trying to fit in all her research and again misses the more individual aspects.

I am, as is my wont, over-criticising a perfectly decent novel that I enjoyed to a large extent, and lots of people have enjoyed to a greater extent. It's good book group stuff and does cover its subject with decency and perfectly adequate writing. I couldn't help but think what the same plot would be like if covered by a Jane Smiley or an Anne Tyler - but that's my problem, not the book's.

Now reserved for the LUCIA challenge.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

At the LUCIA table top sale running 10-1 today!

This book is being released for the Never Judge A Book By Its Cover release challenge 2009 Week 36: WOMEN'S ROLES, release # 37.

This book has been released to raise awareness of LUCIA, a small charity which supports women and orphans in Ethiopia. BookCrossers around the world are taking part in a challenge in September 2009, where we will be releasing hundreds of books with a word relating to women's roles in the title. If you would like to donate to this worthwhile charity, please click here. This is release no 51.

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This was left over at the end of the table-top sale at All Saints Church yesterday; we decided to put all the books left over in the Kitchen Garden Cafe.

Now available on the Official BookCrossing Zone bookshelf in the Kitchen Garden Cafe, York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham.

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This is no longer on the OBCZ shelf. Marking the book as travelling, pending a journal entry, in case anyone goes to look for it in the meantime.

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