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All Good Things: From Paris To Tahiti: Life And Longing (2013)

by Sarah Turnbull(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1592408680 (ISBN13: 9781592408689)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Gotham

review 1: Sometimes the right book just comes along at the right time. This was one of those. It virtually jumped off the library shelves and into my hands after a morning of writing. With no exotic travels planned for the summer, I was hoping to live vicariously through the author's descriptions of life in Tahiti. I got more than I bargained for. In this memoir, Sarah Turnbull writes beautifully and honestly not only about moving to and living in Tahiti, but also about her struggle with infertility and the journey she and her husband took to create a family. For women looking to find hope again, Turnbull's story provides an ample supply.Still want to visit Tahiti some day...
review 2: All Good Things is Sarah Turnbull’s long awaited follow up book to her bestseller, A... morelmost French. I adored Almost French. It was a rather rollicking read, where love and Paris and adventure dripped from each page and made me want some of it myself. So I was excited to hear she’d released another book, about her and her husband Frederic’s move to Tahiti.All Good Things is very different. Not worse, but different. She’s different. Older, wiser, perhaps more damaged by disappointment. I downloaded this book expecting a Take Two type of read, only this time set in Tahiti, but instead found myself immersed in the story of a woman who was battling fertility treatments and the unfulfilled desire to be a mother. And yes, the couple moved to Tahiti during this time, so the book was also about that, and the isolation she felt while she was there.Despite these more serious themes, once again it’s well written and I read it in a day, wanting to know how this journey, both geographically and internally, turned out for Sarah. I won’t give away too much, but I cried. Not quite what I was expecting, but a lovely read all the same.(Probably 3.5 stars… I wish Goodreads did half stars as I don't like rating down) less

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