The Heel of Achilles
Gelesen von CJ Plogue
E. M. Delafield
(4,567 Sterne; 15 Bewertungen)
After a difficult childhood, Lydia Raymond, a lower middle class girl, decides to explore her own individuality and climbs the social ladder. Yet, like everything in life, this has a price. This book tells about her childhood, her quest to find herself, and her relationship with her daughter, Jane. This is a fairytale turned upside down. - Summary by Stav Nisser. (13 hr 21 min)
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good reader
(5 Sterne)
This is an excellently read book. I’m not a fan of Delafield- two books so far, I’ll give it one more try, in which the heroine has all the opportunity to redemption at the end and doesn’t quit get there. I’m not sure what the author’s point is, therefore, with these tales. What are we supposed to learn from them? This is not a book review site, I guess, so that’s that. Excellent reader: perfect tone for our heroine’s tale.
Exquisitely Depressing
Kristin P.
(4 Sterne)
I’m giving this book 4 stars, even though the reading was wonderful. In short, being unfamiliar with Delafield’s works, I wasn’t prepared for such a dismal portrait of such an unsympathetic heroine with such an unsatisfying ending. It was an evocative portrait though, and one to ruminate on for a long time.