The River Wife reads backward and forward while following a family over generations. It is a little bit mystery, little bit drama, whole lot of dark. It was also murky in the telling and traveled too much.
Favorite Quotes:
"It thumped into the large bowl of stewed rhubarb with clotted cream that the waiter had set on our table as the final insult to our appetites."
"Their jeans were so dirty you could sow oats on them and harvest a good crop before either of them realized it."
"Only Ethel May Zubar managed to keep herself together, but that was because she traveled like a ship at sea, with on board laced down tight as she pushed the prow of her bosom past..."
Overall Opinion:
Too many stories trying to be told at once. It seesawed back and forth, picking up threads here, there and everywhere that it burdened its own telling.
Rating:
3
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