Advantages: Good pace and twists Disadvantages: Previous book means not all characters explored fully
I hadn't read any of Lisa Gardner's books before but had heard of her so when I saw she had a few in the library I picked up one that sounded good and wasn't too big to fit in my bag.
The story is about a woman called Annabelle Granger who had spent most of her life on the run, as her father made the family move from place to place changing aliases throughout her childhood until eventually they ended up back in their hometown of Boston and her father died. One morning Annabelle opens the paper and discovers that she has been declared dead, her body found in an underground chamber along with five other young girls.
Annabelle goes to the police where she meets Detective Bobby Dodge and Sergeant DD Warren. Bobby is new to working with the Boston police as he used to be a police sniper but due to events in the past he has changed ...
Advantages: Everything Disadvantages: None that I could see
like you and me.
"The characters involve us, we sympathize with their dreams and despair of their matrimonial tunnel vision, and at the end we are relieved that we listened to Miss Watson and became the wonderful people who we are today."
Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"[Mona Lisa Smile] lets us spend some quality time with some of the finest actresses in American film as they give energetic life to one of the most radically underrepresented minorities in Hollywood: the intelligent woman."
Manohla Dargis, LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Title: Mona Lisa Smile
Film Makers: Columbia Pictures
DVD/VHS: Both
Trailers: Yes
Soundtrack: Yes
Posters: Unknown
Running time: 2 hours and 5 minutes
Certificate: 12
Price: £13.99 from Amazon
Where to buy: Amazon, Ebay, HMV, Blockbuster etc.
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Advantages: Great fiction about passion & power struggles in 15th century Florence. Disadvantages: Historical accuracy of the main character?
*** The Author ***
Jeanne Kalogridis was born in Florida in 1954, has an MA in linguistics and now lives on the USA?s west coast. This book was written in between caring for her husband while he was having chemotherapy, and she praises him for his good humour during the treatment and her writing of the novel.
This book has been published as ?I Mona Lisa? is the USA, but the title was changed to ?Painting Mona Lisa? for the UK market. I don?t think they should have changed the title, as the book spends little time telling us of the Mona Lisa painting, but the lady, known as Mona Lisa, is the main character of the story.
This is the first book by this author that I have read. Having enjoyed it, I will now look out for her other published historical novels, which are The Borgia Bride and The Burning Times. A brand new novel ...
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