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Not a Marriage Manual I'd want to follow!

Advantages: The start is good, pretty cover
Disadvantages: Didn't like the main idea of it, hard going at points

...It's a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen knew more about marriage than anyone else. (Never mind that she never got married herself...)It's in the midst of the recession when Kate, a freelance journalist and self-professed Jane ...

mummy2harry 20.04.2012 · Read full review
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Review of The Jane Austen Marriage Manual - Kim Izzo

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In Stark Surroundings a Fairytale is Born

Advantages: Beautifully written heartrendingly sad, eerily magical. A Stunning read
Disadvantages: Close to perfect for me.

...When childless couple Jack and Mabel decide to move to a homestead in the brutal landscape of 1920's Alaska, their aim is to put their heartache behind them, start a new life and save their marriage. But life is tougher than either of them imagines and as ...

Rhiana 12.01.2012 · Read full review
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Review of The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey

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A Grown Up Fairy Tale

Advantages: Beautifully written, pulls you in, compelling page-turner
Disadvantages: It had to finish...

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey is the story of a middle-aged couple named Jack and Mabel, who move to a remote part of Alaska in the 1920s to escape the heartbreak of their past and to attempt to build a new life for themselves. Both my Mum and my sister re ...

Brownie_Queen 06.02.2013 · Read full review
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Winter Read

Advantages: Powerful Writing
Disadvantages: Can bring one person close to tears

...book that I've been enjoying recently recently is The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. It was given to me as a birthday present in May because people who know me, know that I really love reading and the person who bought it me had a gut feeling that I would ...

CGholy 13.07.2012 · Read full review
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Gorgeous, beautiful, magical... and chilly

Advantages: *Affordable, wonderfully written, easy to read chapters at a time, classy cover.
Disadvantages: Not ideal for summer reading. Themes of still birth and childlessness may not suit everyone.

...I loved this book - perfect for the cold weather This is Eowyn Ivey's first novel but it is so well written that you wouldn't know it! Eowyn is an Alaskan and her personal understanding of the harsh yet beautiful realities of life in the Alaskan tun ...

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