The Book Depository The Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel
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Description: The Sweetness of Forgetting : Paperback : Quercus Publishing : 9781780878416 : : 28 Mar 2013 : A tale of baking, love, hope and faith across generations - with recipes!. The Book Depository The Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Author: Mrs R
Rating: 5
Review: Outstanding-beautifully writren
Author: patsy
Rating: 3
Review: I cant agree about this book being a page turner by any means......For me, it would ave been far better if less wordy and repetitive......(how many times did we read about Jacon and Rose's first encounter)? I could have lived without the recipes and scan-read many pages without losing any information or plot......as for running round France tracing recipes as though this was the one single key to such a mystery? I still cant fathom how a young girl whose family has been lost to the gas chambers would be so enthralled by baking every day -- an learning new recipes from Muslim traditions. All a bit too muddled in its telling and played too big a part in this story....I was fed up of the 'heart pounding' and many things said 'in a small voice'. And either Rose lived a new life for 70 years or she was plagued by memoreis every day. I couldnt work out which it was? All a bit fantastic to be honest finding brother and lover within a weekend.....and of course predictable ending. Which is a shame because some of the brutal detail was educational and informative.....Maybe too much going on in the one story and too neatly wrapped up in parts. Her former husband - likely to pick a gold digging air head for his next wife? Hardly....wasnt he an attorney? But it fit the plot for where the author wanted the tale to go..... Even at the end, I still coudlnt work out why Hope's mother had been so cold hearted towards her daughter? Just wasnt explained well enough for me....or indeed who Hope's father was? This wasnt developed enough for an aspect which was so important to their characters......But an ok read.
