Atlantic Shift - Emily Barr

...takes a different turn in Atlantic shift and turns to the travelling-for-work-purposes that I engage in rather than the travelling-gap-year-style as in Backpack. In all of the books the travel aspect adds a unique dimension to the story - all have some part set in the UK, but great chunks of each take place abroad, in Australia or Cuba or Thailand or, as in this case, across the Atlantic in the USA. The book appealed to be because of the setting, ...
...the back that made me certain it would be another wildly unpredictable book. I have very much enjoyed reading and re-reading it, but sometimes I think that wild unpredictability is just a tad too much. From the first chapter there are random, non-sensial sentences about people and places that have yet to be mentioned, except perhaps a chapter or two before in a previous random, non-sensial comment. I pick up on these when reading and sometimes think ...

zoe_page 17.04.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Atlantic Shift - Emily Barr

A fourth great book by Emily Barr. A story of a world famous cellist, Evie Silverman. Her looks help her more than her talent. She begins a new life when she leaves her husband, but soon discovers she has a stalker to deal with. Does this stalker know her secrets from the past? The secret she desperately hides from the press… This book will catch you and hold you til the end. The characters are brilliant and so is the plot. Another book full of ...
...Here’s a taster of the first paragraph… “I’m half way through a solo cello performance on stage at the London Palladium when I decide to leave my husband. I have been considering the idea for the past two years, half hoping that he would take action before I did. Now I realise that if I want to be free from Jack I must fashion my own freedom; and there will never be a perfect time to tell him. Tonight is an imperfect time for many reasons: it will ...

Edgey 27.07.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Atlantic Shift - Emily Barr

On first impressions, i didnt think i was going to enjoy this book. I had read a few reviews of it that werent that good and i was kind of put off. The first line of the book was something like ' i am playing my cello and decide to leave my husband' , i didnt like it at all how it jumped into that all of a sudden. I hate how it was written in present tense all the time, it was quite strange and i havent read any other book that is in that style. ...
...you wonder what the book is about. When i started reading it i thought i was going to be really bored, but as i got into it i started to enjoy it. There are quite a few aspects of the plot, the main character, Evie, is a cello player who is strangley famous, which didnt come accross as very realistic to me. She decides to leave her husband, and as she begins her life alone she starts to recieve threataning letters. The reader is left guessing who ...

clytaemnestra 04.04.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Atlantic Shift - Emily Barr