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The Holiday Home (2013)

by Fern Britton(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Harper Collins

review 1: It sounded a lot more interesting than it actually was (blurb was really promising). The Carew family are quite ghastly (although I liked Francis)- two middle aged sisters squabbling over a bedroom and trying to one up each other at every turn, a philandering husband, a rather rude grandma, a grandad with skeletons in the closet.... The writing seems rather awkward, and the climax of the story is so rushed. I'm putting it in the "beach book" category, by no means brilliant but not hard work, it could have been so much better.
review 2: For the first quarter of this book, I was not sure I would want to finish it. I found the characters unappealing, and frequent changes of character viewpoint stopped me feeling involved. Then the emotional pace changed, and I wa... mores caught up in the story, which centres on two sisters who don't get on, and their marriages. There were some great touches of humour, and some moments which brought tears to my eyes. I love Cornwall, and the Cornish setting really came into its own as the narrative progressed. It was well worth persevering. less

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