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The Tumultuous Year Of Constance Harding: A Novel (2013)

by Ceri Radford(Favorite Author)

3.34 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

014312286X (ISBN13: 9780143122869)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Penguin Books

review 1: I'd give it a 3.5 if I could. I picked this book off of the "staff picks" shelf at the library. It looked like something cute and light to read until something better came along.Constance was sheltered and clueless through most of the first half of the book, but her naivete was part of what made her unintentionally funny. And although her life and blog entries seemed tiringly mundane in the beginning, when things got interesting later, I realized that the mundaneness served to set us up for the real story. All along, I had fun reading "her blog" and missed her when it ended.
review 2: Constance has it pretty good; a lovely estate, a successful husband, and two grown children. Yet she is lonely, so her son Rupert sets her up a blog. It is much better than ... moretrying to talk to her elusive children or husband. Into her blog she pours all her little frustrations. It is soon clear to the reader that dear Constance is pretty clueless about most of the happenings around her. We see trouble looming right from the get go, while Constance blithely trips on totally unaware. She has a fondness for match making far in excess of any ability with hilariously disastrous results. When Constance’s little piece of paradise melts down, she comes of age (rather late in life) and finds herself as a woman able to embrace life in ways she never dreamed. Funny, light hearted, and full of interesting little twists. less

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