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Publisher:
Harper Torch / HarperCollins |
Release
Date: June 1998 - reprint |
ISBN:
0-06-109921-X |
Awards:
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Format
Reviewed: Paperback |
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an Excerpt |
Genre:
Fiction / Literary Romance |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer:
Jo Rogers |
Reviewer
Notes: contains foul language and sexual scenes
Holiday: both Thanksgiving and
Christmas are covered here |
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MyShelf.com |
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Up Island
By Anne Rivers Siddons
Up
Island
is Anne Rivers Siddons newest book. It is the story of Molly Bell
Redwine, a middle-aged Southern woman. Molly has been taught that
her family is everything. Suddenly, however, her husband leaves
her for a younger woman, a lawyer he met at work. Her daughter is
married and living in Memphis, and her son is going away to college.
Except for her parents, Molly has been cut loose from the family
that anchored her for so long.
Before
she can decide whether or not to give her husband a divorce, her
mother makes plans to get him back. For some reason, Molly becomes
enraged and lets the anger spill out onto her mother. Before she
can apologize, however, her mother has a stroke and dies. Her brother,
always her mother’s favorite, blames Molly for their mother’s
death. All she has now is her father. Then, he, too, decides to
go away and leave Molly by herself.
Livvy,
Molly’s best friend in Atlanta, talks Molly into taking some
time off and going with her to the house Livvy and Caleb own on
Chappaquiddick Island just off Martha’s Vineyard. There, Molly
enters a whole new world. She finds the possibility that life can
exist without family.
Up
Island is not an average romance. It doesn’t interest
you in reading it, it compels you to read it. One is helpless to
stop, even if one is not fond of romances. Siddons’ characters
are alive and you feel their pain, their joy, their shock and dismay
and their love. We also get a feel for Martha’s Vineyard,
especially the area they call up island. Pick up a copy of Up Island.
This is a compelling story you will not soon forget.
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