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Come Sunday. Isla Morley (2010)

by Isla Morley(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0340976519 (ISBN13: 9780340976517)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Sceptre

review 1: I was completely taken in with this book, in love, even... for most of it. All is a lot to ask for, I know, especially since I'm me, but just once I want to be as in love at the end of a story as at the beginning and middle. Sadly,though,I might just have to write that story myself.But as for this one, the author's telling of it was extraordinary to me. I almost instantly loved her. Her words... the way I could almost see her mind working to connect them... this author gets five stars from me. Because it wasn't her that I didn't still love at the end, it was her story that unwound differently that I wanted it to. Being HERS, of course, that's just the way it is and I shouldn't fault her for it... BUT... I can't help but feel just a little misled. Or teased, is perhaps a be... moretter word. And, though I'm never going to get it, I STILL want that thing she teased with. Far more than what I got, which was by no means a bad ending, just a different. And a lacking something. A someone, to be exact, who I was more intrigued by than any other someone throughout this course of pain, mourning, and misery.There was a hope in you, S. And a story I'll now grieve for not having been given the opportunity to read.And for what else I grieved for before I got to that... I hope there are yellow kites in heaven.
review 2: This is a magnificent novel, but not for the faint hearted. It takes you on a trip to hell and back without a self-indulgent word wasted. Although it is very much character driven, with a page-turning plot, the settings are sharply evocative and suggest that the author knows them well. In particular Morley shows a deep understanding of and sensitivity to traditional church life and to the world of pre- and post- apartheid South Africa. She consistently avoids cliche and ideology for subtle insight into the human condition and the theological issues that surround it. Highly recommended. less

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