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Why Not Say What Happened?: A Memoir (2010)

by Ivana Lowell(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0747595062 (ISBN13: 9780747595069)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Bloomsbury UK

review 1: I only made it through the first seven chapters when I decided that this isn't a quality piece of work. It had the potential to be good, but I wonder how it got past the editing staff. It reads as if the author was in the early stages of writing it and was putting her notes together. The writing had no flow, and a lot of the details she gave needed to be fleshed out more. I did a brief web search about the author because I was curious as to what kind of education she had. She doesn't seem articulate or capable of explaining things very well. Heck, I even wondered if English is her first language.
review 2: Really breezy, gossipy read. Ivana Lowell is a Guinness (beer) heiress and the daughter of the writers Robert Lowell and Caroline Blackwood (also a Guinness ... moregirl). It's a memoir (how do I keep reading these?) full of the seemingly predictable trials of addiction and abuse. I enjoyed her writing style (very conversational, light) and she has an interesting perspective, having grown up as an aristocrat among her parents' literary circle. Probably not for anyone with a taste for more serious material. Better as a quick weekend or beach book. less

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