Wife in the North (edition 2008)

by Judith O'Reilly

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Maybe hormones ate her brain. How else would Judith's husband have prised her away from London to the depths of Northumberland? Pregnant with number three and a long way from home, Judith is about to discover that there are one or two things about life in Northumberland he never mentioned - the fact that the nearest thing to an ethnic minority would be a redhead, that running out of petrol in a snowstorm was a really bad idea and that she'd be making friends with people who believed in the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Judith tries to do that simple thing that women do, make hers a happy family. A family that might live happily ever after. Possibly even up North...… (more)

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Title:	Wife in the North
Authors:	Judith O'Reilly
Info:	PublicAffairs (2008), Edition: illustrated edition, Paperback, 352 pages
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astridvdeede | Dec 26, 2015 |

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I really enjoyed this book. It took me a while to get through it because it was non-fiction, but that was ok because I didn't want the book to end. It was funny and heart felt. (

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ChicagoCubs | Apr 9, 2010 |

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I really liked bits and pieces of this book, but not enough to reccomend it. I didn't find the blog to book transition as rocky as many did. To me, a blog sounds a lot like a memoir anyways. But I wasn't a fan of the author's tone a lot of the time. The parts I enjoyed were all anecdotal, and the parts I hated were mostly broad descriptive or reflective passages. The juxtaposition of the two felt a bit awkward. An interesting book, but not a keeper for me. (

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f_ing_kangaroo | Nov 14, 2009 |

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Blog to books always have the same translation problems. Blogs are hip and fun to read because you are reading ALONG with them at the same time things are happening. When they are published to book format they never translate well. I wouldn't have chosen this one to review had I known. I read it, but it was choppy because of the formatting issues and I didn't care for it. (

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PoeticaL | Sep 1, 2009 |

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Overall I was not impressed with this book. The blog-to-book format does not work very well for me, and I think this book could have benefited from some editing of the entries that were originally blog posts. O'Reilly has some poignant stories to tell, and they would have come across as more powerful if her tone and writing style were more even. (

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cpirmann | Aug 1, 2009 |

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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

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As we drove out of the City's fabulous spraw last night, I wondered whether I could kill my husband and plead insanity.

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Maybe hormones ate her brain. How else would Judith's husband have prised her away from London to the depths of Northumberland? Pregnant with number three and a long way from home, Judith is about to discover that there are one or two things about life in Northumberland he never mentioned - the fact that the nearest thing to an ethnic minority would be a redhead, that running out of petrol in a snowstorm was a really bad idea and that she'd be making friends with people who believed in the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Judith tries to do that simple thing that women do, make hers a happy family. A family that might live happily ever after. Possibly even up North...

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