About this title: Told in a series of vignettes, this story of young Alice Raikes describes her breakdown and suicide attempt after a mysterious incident in an Edinburgh train station rest room. As Alice lies in a coma, her life is picked apart until the trauma that so unsettled her become clear.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780670894482ISBN:0670894486
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780670894482ISBN:0670894486
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780670894482ISBN:0670894486
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780670894482ISBN:0670894486
Description: Good. Hardcover ex-library book with dust jacket in good condition. All usual stamps and markings. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. *NOTE* Stock photo may not represent the actual book for sale. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780670894482ISBN:0670894486
Description: Very good. Light wear to edges and pages. Cover and spine show no easily noticeable damage. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Review
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780747268161ISBN:0747268169
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Edition: 1st
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Viking, N. Y.
Date published: 2001
Description: Cover Art. Fine in Very Good jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The hard cover has very little shelf wear....The jacket has creases on the back top.........The book may have minor flaws that have went unnoticed. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HEADLINE (HODD)
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780755330720ISBN:0755330722
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"This brilliant story about love and loss is set in contemporary times betwixt London and small-town Scotland. Alice, the young heroine, is intense and quite likeable: she knows what she wants and has no pretenses. The story is mostly looking back on her life as she lies in a coma after an accident, shortly after unexpectedly seeing something shocking that was quite a revelation to her. Chapters jump back and forth between Alice's childhood and love life and her mother's and grandmother's lives. The writing is straightforward and devastating. I especially enjoyed reading a novel set in the British Isles during modern times instead of in the past."
"This is a choppy story, flashing back and forth between histories of a mother, Ann, and daughter, Alice, as well as what Alice is thinking while in a coma. I especially liked the parts featuring Elspeth, Ann's mother-in-law, and the widely different relationships she enjoyed with Ann and Alice. The story is a bit sappier than the ones to which I usually gravitate but I enjoyed it all the same."
"I first read this in 2006 and just discovered it again in a pile of books kept at my parents. I'm re-reading it. It's interesting - a little dark and dramatic. Family secrets, tragedy, and the growth of a person."
By sisterimapoet,
West Sussex, WS, The United Kingdom
"I was a bit confused by the shifting perspectives when I first started reading. Sometimes clearly markers to show a shift can be helpful, such as individual chapters given to each character. However O'Farrell more subtle and sudden shifts within chapters kept me on my toes and once I'd got straight who everyone was I had no trouble keeping up.
Quite bleak throughout. Knowing tragedy is just around the corner but not quite what form it will take. A sad lesson in the lasting damage of lies."
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