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Talking to the Dead by Helen Dunmore
Talking to the Dead by Helen Dunmore: the first United States publication of Dunmore, winner of the Orange Prize (for debuting women novelists), that deals with the hidden secrets that can tear a family apart.
Nina has come to spend time with her sister Isabel after the birth of Isabel’s first child, Anthony, is much more difficult than expected. In the isolated cottage where Isabel lives is Edward (one of Isabel’s friends), Susan (the nanny), and Ricard, Isabel’s husband who’s usually away on business trips.
It’s almost difficult to describe what this book is really about without giving away the major plot details. Suffice to say, the heart of the novel is the relationship between Isabel and Nina and what is true and what is simply manipulated in the events that entwine them.
I wish now that I had gone back and read both the beginning and the ending before sending it to the person who was to read it after me. I would like to take them both in again and see if my conclusions and thoughts were the same.
Ultimately, it’s a very quick read and Dunmore’s voice is both strong and mesmerizing. I enjoyed the novel and would like to read other things by her in the future.
(Finished on September 19, 2003 for Zuly’s Reading Room.)
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