Alice McDonald has escaped all the obvious traps that lie in wait for women. She loves her job but enjoys her clever, spirited children too; her husband (Dan the New Man) does his... more
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Advantages: Great main characters, fast-paced plot, no boring details! Disadvantages: Some stereotyped minor characters, some rather unlikely situations
What a wonderful book this is! It's a short novel - only 275 pages in paperback - yet as I read, I felt as if I was transported to the lives of the people concerned. I began it last Sunday morning, read most of the afternoon, a few chapters at a time, and by 10.00pm was so eager to know what happened that I continued reading way past my normal bedtime until I got to the highly satisfactory ending.
• Genre • As with so many books, A Long Walk in ... ...it's too short to be a saga novel. It's likely to appeal mainly to women, and it's modern - set in 1996, the year it was written - but it's rather thought-provoking in places, and has no explicit scenes, so it can't really be considered chick-lit. It contains an adventure with a bit of suspense, but it's certainly not a thriller. It's both character-driven and plot-driven, and it raises a few contemporary 'issues' - but in such a low-key way that ...
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Alice McDonald has escaped all the obvious traps that lie in wait for women. She loves her job but enjoys her clever, spirited children too; her husband (Dan the New Man) does his share at home, and their London house is always full of friends. At her thirty-seventh birthday party, Alice reflects that their life has been a pretty successful production so far.But love can be treacherous, and children are never quite what they seem. Two months later, far from home and alone on a desperate quest through the bleak lanes of Norfolk, Alice wonders how it fell apart so quickly. Were things ever as good as they seemed? Had the McDonalds really been happy, or was it no more than a stage illusion? See all Product Description
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