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| Penguin UK 2014 |
Eleanor Lee lives alone her
house by the sea, but aged ninety-four and almost blind, Eleanor is a source
worry for her family who try to persuade her to move into care. A whole lifetimes
of possessions need to be tidied away but Eleanor needs to do this without her
family being involved. When Peter Mistley, a young friend of her grandson Jonah,
is enlisted to help catalogue Eleanor’s personal effects, a whole range of
secrets are exposed.
What then follows is a well
written account of a life encumbered by memories and as Peter starts to delve
into Eleanor’s life there develops a rich closeness between them and a gradual drawing
together of both the old and the young which is especially poignant. I found
the book easy to read and very quickly became involved in the detritus of
Eleanor’s life. I think the author really got into the minutiae of daily life
and emphasised that we all have secrets and that all too often the discovery of
these hidden away memories can leave us feeling vulnerable and exposed.
All in all, a good light read
with interesting characters and well thought out storyline.
My thanks to NetGalley and Penguin
Books UK and Real Readers for my copy of this book.
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