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The book is an autobiographical account of five years [2] in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell, aged 10 at the start of the saga, of his family, pets and life during a sojourn on Corfu. The book is divided into three sections, marking the three villas where the family lived on the island.
The book revolves around a 14-year-old narrator, Prudence 'Prue' King. Prue and her sister Grace are homeschooled but are forced to go to school after their father, a bookshop owner, suffers a stroke after an argument with Prue. The family are deeply in debt and cannot afford to get private tutors to homeschool the girls.
This famous stranger’s book is a jarring act of exposure and misrepresentation of their most private moments.” [3] Prior to Commonwealth, Patchett often set novels abroad—the idea for the plot of Bel Canto came from an actual hostage crisis in Peru that she had read about in the news.
The collection features eight intricate stories exploring themes of love, marriage, aging, and human relationships, including the titular story about an unlikely romance sparked by a teenage prank, and "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," a poignant examination of love and memory in the face of illness.
The book is structured similarly to a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. The three mothers and four daughters (one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of short vignettes. Each part is preceded by a parable relating to the themes within ...
David Lipsky, writing for The New York Times, said "Halfway through my second reading of Elena Ferrante's "Troubling Love" — 70 more pages to go in seamy Naples — I tore the book down the middle. It's the first time a novel ever made me get physical, and it was the first good mood I'd been in for weeks."
Where Rainbows End (also known as Love, Rosie or Rosie Dunne) is the second novel by Irish writer Cecelia Ahern, published in 2004. The entire novel is written in epistolary structure in the form of letters, emails, instant messages, and newspaper articles.
Modern Love by George Meredith is a sequence of fifty 16-line sonnets about the failure of a marriage, an episodic verse narrative that has been described as "a novella in verse". [1] Earlier working titles for the sequence were "The Love-Match" and then "The Tragedy of Modern Love". [2]