Life Drawing
By Robin Black
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 9/10
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
(9/10)
247 pages
What’s it about?
Augusta (Gus) and Owen move to the country to save their troubled marriage. After a few quiet years Allison moves in next door. Things quickly begin to unravel in Gus and Owen’s relationship. The novel opens with Owen’s death- but what caused it?
What did it make me think about?
This book was about the complexity of a long marriage. It also touched onbetrayal, isolation, grief, and art.
Should I read it?
So I must admit this novel sat on my bedside for months. It has a cover that almost looks like a Harlequin romance. It just put me off. I am so glad I finally picked it up. This was the best novel I have never heard of! It reminded me in some ways of “Rebecca” or “Wuthering Heights”. So much atmosphere and tension- so many multi-dimensional characters. This was a most unexpected surprise!
Quote-
“But Owen was Owen. Owen was me. I was Owen. Anger and all. Owen would walk into a room and I might well want to kill him-so to speak- but at the same time, for much of my life, I couldn’t really of told you where I left off and he began. And then he died. Leaving me standing at a window, staring into a landscape as though, well, as though he might just reappear one day. Of course.”
What’s it about?
Augusta (Gus) and Owen move to the country to save their troubled marriage. After a few quiet years Allison moves in next door. Things quickly begin to unravel in Gus and Owen’s relationship. The novel opens with Owen’s death- but what caused it?
Augusta (Gus) and Owen move to the country to save their troubled marriage. After a few quiet years Allison moves in next door. Things quickly begin to unravel in Gus and Owen’s relationship. The novel opens with Owen’s death- but what caused it?
What did it make me think about?
This book was about the complexity of a long marriage. It also touched onbetrayal, isolation, grief, and art.
This book was about the complexity of a long marriage. It also touched onbetrayal, isolation, grief, and art.
Should I read it?
So I must admit this novel sat on my bedside for months. It has a cover that almost looks like a Harlequin romance. It just put me off. I am so glad I finally picked it up. This was the best novel I have never heard of! It reminded me in some ways of “Rebecca” or “Wuthering Heights”. So much atmosphere and tension- so many multi-dimensional characters. This was a most unexpected surprise!
So I must admit this novel sat on my bedside for months. It has a cover that almost looks like a Harlequin romance. It just put me off. I am so glad I finally picked it up. This was the best novel I have never heard of! It reminded me in some ways of “Rebecca” or “Wuthering Heights”. So much atmosphere and tension- so many multi-dimensional characters. This was a most unexpected surprise!
Quote-
“But Owen was Owen. Owen was me. I was Owen. Anger and all. Owen would walk into a room and I might well want to kill him-so to speak- but at the same time, for much of my life, I couldn’t really of told you where I left off and he began. And then he died. Leaving me standing at a window, staring into a landscape as though, well, as though he might just reappear one day. Of course.”
“But Owen was Owen. Owen was me. I was Owen. Anger and all. Owen would walk into a room and I might well want to kill him-so to speak- but at the same time, for much of my life, I couldn’t really of told you where I left off and he began. And then he died. Leaving me standing at a window, staring into a landscape as though, well, as though he might just reappear one day. Of course.”
