Monthly Archives: June 2015

Elizabeth is Missing

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This was recommended to me by Kay the reading group leader. I found the book to contain a wonderful, very realistic portrayal of dementia, showing both a sufferer’s and carer’s point of view. I didn’t get any satisfaction from the solution to the mystery at the end of the book. I would recommend it though, purely for the dementia aspect; I really felt the terror and frustration of it.


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You don’t know for sure how Sukey died. Elizabeth turned out to be in hospital:
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The Language of Flowers

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This was a reading group book. It’s a fairly absorbing tale of a girl who is finding her own way in life after 18 years in foster care. It’s something of a page-turner, with alternate chapters providing flashbacks to the past which explain the present. The protagonist is unlikeable but how she comes to be the way she is is explained as the book unfolds. The plot is slightly unrealistic – Victoria always seems to land on her feet – but the part about her (SPOILER) motherhood more than makes up for it. I wasn’t very taken with the language of flowers itself either, which is annoyingly unscientific.

Overall this book is ok; thought-provoking and easy to read.