Summer After The Funeral
A Literary Fiction, Novels, Young Adult book. This is very much an early Gardam. There are too many characters and her style is not fully...
A rather mysterious old clergyman is dead, and his most adoring child, sixteen-year-old Athene is desolate. A statuesque beauty, greatly admired, she is also lonely, untouchable and living a secret life of fairly dangerous fantasy. Athene's mother, at once highly organised and monumentally vague, dispatches her children to spend the holidays with assorted friends and relatives. For Athene, victim of plans gone awry, that golden summer after the funeral becomes deliciously puzzling fodder for her fantasy. Stuck in a seaside hotel with an inarticulate and beautiful boy, marooned in...
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- Pages: 192 pages
- ISBN: / 9781405516
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This is very much an early Gardam. There are too many characters and her style is not fully developed, but of course, it's an early novel.Still, you can see the beginnings of the fine writer she has become: the humor, the insight into character, the fine humanness of her people. Very much worth reading. Read as an audiobook which made it feel very intimate. I especailly liked the way some of the narrative was not told through the voice of Athene/Mim/Athie (how many names did the poor girl have!) but how people reacted to her. What parents do to their children... This is a lovely book, and falls just short of five stars because the transformation of Athene was somewhat hard to understand.I was especially impressed by how many characters were clearly (and delightfully) delineated in such a short book (really a novella). While it takes a chapter or two to sort them out (especially because alll...
