Waterstones How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
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Price: £8.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Exclusive Editions - contains an exclusive short story called Miller. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021. In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers. For Wilma, it's the story of a wilful adventurer, who ignores the warnings of those around her, and suffers as a result. When Lala grows up, she sees it offers hope - of life after losing a baby in the most terrible of circumstances and marrying the wrong man. And Mira Whalen? It's about keeping alive, trying to make sense of the fact that her husband has been murdered, and she didn't get the chance to tell him that she loved him after all. How the One-armed Sister Sweeps Her House is the powerful, intense story of three marriages, and of a beautiful island paradise where, beyond the white sand beaches and the wealthy tourists, lies poverty, menacing violence and the story of the sacrifices some women make to survive. Waterstones How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781472268792
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ISBN: 9781472268792
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Rating: 5
Review: This was bought as a present - the recipient loved it.
Author: Patricia
Rating: 2
Review: “Shortlisted for 2021 Women’s prize for fiction” certainly grabbed my attention, and this woman is clearly a gifted writer ; but she must have some dark places inside her head. How is any plot-line enhanced by a chronological catalogue of the contents of a defecating policeman’s faeces as he squats on a beach — at a spot to which he later returns, to find that he can still smell his own poo? Another character, a man who fathered a child by his own daughter, ends his days wallowing in his own poo. A poverty-stricken black woman (the issue of said incest) is regularly beaten-up by her black husband. Domestic violence is a topic that always deserves an airing, but (in my opinion) not in such graphic and repetitive detail in a work of fiction. Also, the narrative may risk giving the uninformed the impression that domestic violence only occurs against this type of background : VERY far from the truth. Reading this as an e-book I reached a point - about halfway through - where I started skimming through the pages, just to see if justice would be done — it was and it wasn’t. All in all I found it a grinding read, with an unsatisfactory ending. Glad I only paid 99p for it. Would not recommend shelling out for the paperback version.
