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Ein großes Haus, einen reichen Mann und viele Kinder hatte sich Alison für ihr Leben gewünscht. Und das Leben, so scheint es auf den ersten Blick, hat es gut mit ihr gemeint. Während ihr Mann Charles seine Bücher schreibt, ziehen Alison und Ingrid, das Au-Pair, eine Kinderschar groß. Es ist das alltägliche Familienchaos: kleine Grausamkeiten und große Gefühle. Und ein Geheimnis, das unter dem brüchigen Siegel der Verschwiegenheit gehalten wird.
Booker-Preisträgerin Penelope Lively eröffnet uns die Welt einer Familie, die Träume, Wünsche und Erinnerungen, die Siege, Niederlagen und unsichtbaren Narben, die von Weihnachts- und Geburtstagsfeiern oder Strandurlauben zurückbleiben. Ein hintersinniger Roman, der zeigt, was Familie ausmacht.
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Penelope Lively studierte in Oxford Geschichte und hat zahlreiche preisgekrönte Kinderbücher, Romane und Erzählungen veröffentlicht, darunter der Roman »Moon Tiger«, der mit dem renommierten Booker-Preis ausgezeichnet wurde. Zu ihrem bei C.Bertelsmann erschienen Roman »Das Photo« schrieb die FAZ: »Dieses Buch ist ein Schlüssel zum Glück.«
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Okay, a family with six children, an aloof father and a mother who seems almost obsessed with creating a facade of happy family life. Add an au-pair who never left the family, even when the children are grown up. And of course there is a dark family secret that is never mentioned, but everybody seems to know about it. Sounds interesting. But I was disappointed by this book. The characters were stereotypical and missed depth. The constant changes of narrator and timeline made it impossible to get into the book, to identify oneself with one of the characters or even to care for one of them. The complex relationship between family members is not fully explained. A lot of questions remained without an answer. The title of the novel was well chosen. The family is presented in snapshots of their life, it feels almost like skimming through an album of family pictures. I liked the writing style, though. I will definately try another book by this author. Many of them got better reviews than this one.
Okay, a family with six children, an aloof father and a mother who seems almost obsessed with creating a facade of happy family life. Add an au-pair who never left the family, even when the children are grown up. And of course there is a dark family secret that is never mentioned, but everybody seems to know about it. Sounds interesting. But I was disappointed by this book. The characters were stereotypical and missed depth. The constant changes of narrator and timeline made it impossible to get into the book, to identify oneself with one of the characters or even to care for one of them. The complex relationship between family members is not fully explained. A lot of questions remained without an answer. The title of the novel was well chosen. The family is presented in snapshots of their life, it feels almost like skimming through an album of family pictures. I liked the writing style, though. I will definately try another book by this author. Many of them got better reviews than this one.
Description
Ein großes Haus, einen reichen Mann und viele Kinder hatte sich Alison für ihr Leben gewünscht. Und das Leben, so scheint es auf den ersten Blick, hat es gut mit ihr gemeint. Während ihr Mann Charles seine Bücher schreibt, ziehen Alison und Ingrid, das Au-Pair, eine Kinderschar groß. Es ist das alltägliche Familienchaos: kleine Grausamkeiten und große Gefühle. Und ein Geheimnis, das unter dem brüchigen Siegel der Verschwiegenheit gehalten wird.
Booker-Preisträgerin Penelope Lively eröffnet uns die Welt einer Familie, die Träume, Wünsche und Erinnerungen, die Siege, Niederlagen und unsichtbaren Narben, die von Weihnachts- und Geburtstagsfeiern oder Strandurlauben zurückbleiben. Ein hintersinniger Roman, der zeigt, was Familie ausmacht.
Book Information
Author Description
Penelope Lively studierte in Oxford Geschichte und hat zahlreiche preisgekrönte Kinderbücher, Romane und Erzählungen veröffentlicht, darunter der Roman »Moon Tiger«, der mit dem renommierten Booker-Preis ausgezeichnet wurde. Zu ihrem bei C.Bertelsmann erschienen Roman »Das Photo« schrieb die FAZ: »Dieses Buch ist ein Schlüssel zum Glück.«
Posts
Okay, a family with six children, an aloof father and a mother who seems almost obsessed with creating a facade of happy family life. Add an au-pair who never left the family, even when the children are grown up. And of course there is a dark family secret that is never mentioned, but everybody seems to know about it. Sounds interesting. But I was disappointed by this book. The characters were stereotypical and missed depth. The constant changes of narrator and timeline made it impossible to get into the book, to identify oneself with one of the characters or even to care for one of them. The complex relationship between family members is not fully explained. A lot of questions remained without an answer. The title of the novel was well chosen. The family is presented in snapshots of their life, it feels almost like skimming through an album of family pictures. I liked the writing style, though. I will definately try another book by this author. Many of them got better reviews than this one.
Okay, a family with six children, an aloof father and a mother who seems almost obsessed with creating a facade of happy family life. Add an au-pair who never left the family, even when the children are grown up. And of course there is a dark family secret that is never mentioned, but everybody seems to know about it. Sounds interesting. But I was disappointed by this book. The characters were stereotypical and missed depth. The constant changes of narrator and timeline made it impossible to get into the book, to identify oneself with one of the characters or even to care for one of them. The complex relationship between family members is not fully explained. A lot of questions remained without an answer. The title of the novel was well chosen. The family is presented in snapshots of their life, it feels almost like skimming through an album of family pictures. I liked the writing style, though. I will definately try another book by this author. Many of them got better reviews than this one.