Advantages: Good story set in an interesting period of time. Disadvantages: Slightly unbelievable at times.
of his increasingly frail grandmother. She shows courage and determination in spades, undiminished by the passing of time and it is a steely resolve that drives her to consider any actions if it will reunite her family.
With a writing style which is both eloquent and passionate, Marcia Preston brings to life the bleakness and cheerlessness that marked the lives of ordinary people living in East Berlin at that time. It is at times a heart-wrenching story that had me rooting for Trudy right from the start and left me wanting to know more about the politics of the cold war period of which the Berlin Wall was so symbolic.
At the back of the book are a few extra pages with suggestions for reading group discussion points, a paragraph by Marcia Preston on how she came to write the book and a few questions and answers about the author ...
I found this book in our local charity shop - it cost me 50p i think but was marked up as £5.99.
Have to say i had never heard of the author before and it was the many vibrant colours of blue on the cover and the seaside picture on the front that caught my eye.
She was born in Somerset on August 6 1945 the day the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She was the youngest of five girls and Marcia wanted to train as a ballet dancer. Unfortunately this was'nt to be, so she studied to be a ballet teacher instead.
Her first husband was a naval officer with whom she had a son, Charles. Her second husband, Rodney, himself a writer and broadcaster, encouraged Marcia to write novels.
This is a cosy read with good characterisations set in the South West of England in Devon. I think it appealed to me all the more because of its ...
Advantages: It is challenging as well as very satisfying to look at Disadvantages: It's featured clothes are often extremely expensive!
The main value of this magazine is how pleasing it is on the eye, I have to be honest. It is quite different to other fashion magazines in that it offers a totally different approach to beauty. It is often quite dark, but not in the pretentious way, or the overtly characterised way that we often see in magazines such as Vogue. It is fresh in that it seeks to be different, but not for the sake of being different, but to offer the reader something other than the mindlessness of magazines we would typically find today. It hits a nerve.
Although I would suggest that this magazine is worth buying merely for what it offers visually, it is also an extremely informative magazine, dealing with all manner of issues etc, that you would expect from a publication of its merit. It is very well written, the articles are intelligently dealt ...
Fuschia 19.03.2001
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