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 Marlene-NL | Apr 12, 2013 |  i really loved quindlen's columns when she wrote for newsweek so perhaps i had inflated expectations for the first book of hers that i've read. it was actually not bad, just not great. from the work i've done with survivors, i think she gets most of the dynamics of domestic violence, but not all of it. her portrayal of the woman helping is unfortunate, and uncommon, from all that i've seen. also, as an aside because it's not her fault, this edition is fraught with typos. (  ) elisa.saphier | Apr 2, 2013 | I think it’s amazing when you meet characters in a book and they become so real that it becomes difficult to think they are just characters. They tell a story, so real, that you feel sympathy, worry, ache. I can only think of a few books that have left me with that feeling after putting the book down and this one was one of them. Fran is one of the bravest characters I've ever "met". This book certainly tackles mature, sad and sensitive topics, but I thought it was done with an amazing amount of insight and experience. Though reading Quindlen's note at the end, that wasn't the case. I understood the end, it wasn't the perfect fairytale ending we all wish for in life, but it was real. (  ) traciragas | May 22, 2012 | Fran has been the victim of domestic abuse for years. She’s built a life around the lies she tells her family and friends when a new bruise appears. Her husband, a New York cop, intimidates and threatens her into feeling helpless. Finally, she’s had enough and decides to take her young son and leave. With a new identity and very little else, she starts a new life in Florida. But even a new home and friends doesn’t help her shake the constant feeling of fear she’s grown to live with. Every new stranger talking to her son is suspicious and each wrong number leaves her shaking. I don’t know why, but I always seem to lump this author into the same group as Jodi Picoult, Anne Tyler and Anita Shreve. I don’t read much from any of those authors, so I tend to confuse them. I think I enjoy Quindlen more than the rest, but I’ve only read a few things by her. This book made me feel so grateful for the men in my life. My husband, father, brother, etc. are all wonderful men and I have never ever had to live with the fear of being hit. I think it’s easy for people who have never been abused, like me, to wonder why the women stay or go back to the men. This book helped give me a better understanding of their point-of-view and how hopeless those situations can feel. Quindlen did a great job portraying this without painting Fran as only a victim. I won’t give anything away about the ending, except to say it really surprised me. I was expecting something much more predictable and instead I think it was much more realistic. (  ) bookworm12 | Nov 29, 2011 | PamelaReads | Aug 5, 2011 | no reviews | add a review
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I loved reading this book. I hated it when I was finished. This book was definitely one of my favourite's this year.After reading this i wanted to read more books by Anna Quindlen.Next will be Blessings.