Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Woman Next Door |
| author | Barbara Delinsky |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7434-1125-0 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-743-41125-7 |
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| date | 2007-May-13 |
An average story of the average neighbourhood in an average small village. While Amanda and Graham are struggling to conceive, the reserved widow next door, Gretchen, is pregnant and won't tell who the father is. This again does not quite help the worked up marriage of the other neighbours, Karen and Lee, especially as Lee has a history of cheating on his wife. Also Georgia, the last neighbour on the cul-de-sac is asking herself, whether her husband, Russ, could have fathered Gretchen's child. After all she's out on business for most of the week while Russ is at home...
Barbara Delinsky has a way of working with the feelings of the characters in the book, fear, expectation, doubt, love, trust, that makes a good read out of an average story.
