Your Blue-Eyed Boy
Helen Dunmore
Caroline had started reading this book 5 years ago but had had to
stop reading on page 9 where 'something horrible happens to a
small boy'. She has now read through to the end and was glad she
had gone back to it, found it 'very good indeed'. A very
well-written story about a girl who grows up to be a judge and
whose past comes back to haunt her.
Caroline 21/11/04
This book has some great strengths and some weaknesses. Strengths
revolve around descriptions of landscape (both marshy landscape
in a backwater of southern England, and that of the east coast of
the USA) and the narrator ( a judge). The main weakness is the
unlikely plot, in particular the way that someone who is a judge
and therefore sees a lot of human life, puts herself in danger,
and also manages some unbelievable feats of stamina/strength.
Gill 26/12/04
A ridiculous story about a judge whose husband has got into debt. They move to the country. She starts hearing from an old flame and it gets out of control. The old flame turns up and ends up dead. It just would not happen.
Gill had read it and said the descriptions of the scenery were good
Andrew 9/10/05
By the same author
The frames have
gone all funny - click to make it good.