When We Were Small - Rosie Thomas

Back When We Were Grownups

Advantages: Small Town America at its best!
Disadvantages: Too short!

them closer together. The house needs continual repair, plaster falls from the ceiling at an alarming rate, Uncle Poppy, Rebecca’s 99 year old uncle-in-law who lives on the top floor is obsessed with his forthcoming 100th birthday party and Min Foo (aka Minerva) Rebecca and Joe’s daughter is just about to give birth to her third child from her third “exotic” marriage. Against this backdrop Rebecca starts to wonder what would have happened if she had never met Joe and decides to contact Will, her old boyfriend, with interesting results. Back When We Were Grownups couldn’t have been written by anyone but Anne Tyler, who handles peoples’ thoughts and feelings with such expertise that the characters live with you for weeks after you finish the book. There are no fireworks, no murders, no strife, no ...

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"We were the Mulvaneys, remember us?"

Advantages: Well written
Disadvantages: A bit too long, and flowery

WE WERE THE MULVANEYS By JOYCE CAROL OATES Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16, 1938) in New York. She is an award winning writer and very popular in her native America, she has written some very contraversial books including 'Black Water', a story based on the Kennedy-Chappaquiddick scandal. Her 26th book 'We Were the Mulvaneys' was written in 1996. In 2002 the book was adapted into a TV film starring Beau Bridges and Blythe Danner. 'We Were the Mulvaneys' is an emotional family chronicle that follows nearly forty years of triumphs and tragedies of the Mulvaney family. Michael and Corrine Mulvaney have the perfect family. They have four wonderful, perfect children Michael, Patrick, Judd, and Marianne - including a recently graduated high school football star, a vastly intellectual science student ...

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Back When We Were Grown Ups

Advantages: Interesting, enjoyable, amusing
Disadvantages: None, except if you're looking for major, ground breaking plot twists !

light hearted or maudlin. I read this whilst on a holiday and it went perfectly with the sunny terrace and sea breeze - gripping enough to be enjoyable but not so white knuckle that I was tempted to miss dinner in order to read on ! I'll be looking out for more Anne Taylor books. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Taylor Vintage (4 July 2002) ISBN 0099422549 ...

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