Books
by Douglas Kennedy
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A Special Relationship |
Sally Goodchild, a 37-year-old American foreign correspondent in Cairo, meets and falls in love with Tony Hobbs, a famous British journalist. She becomes pregnant and, as they seem to be happy together, they marry and return to London. And they don't live happily ever after! It's much more the beginning of hell . . . a good read for a grey and cold winter weekend.
(Laurence Martin Euler - bwl 21 November 2003) |
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State of the Union |
It's been a long time since I've enjoyed a novel so much. It tells the story of Hannah Buchan from the Sixties to the present day. She is the very sensible daughter of not so sensible parents who, to their utter disappointment, chose to marry at the age of twenty a nice future doctor and to become a teacher. But one night something happened, something for which she'll be punished but not until decades later . . .
(Laurence Martin Euler - bwl 32 November 2005) |
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The Moment |
I used to be a Kennedy fan but I disliked this over-sentimental pseudo love story! You just don't understand the mid-life crisis of the narrator. Yes, his life is a failure but not because he gave up the love of his life when he was young but simply because he was afraid to fully live. You can really skip it.
(Laurence Martin Euler - bwl 62 Autumn 2011) |
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