Barbara Voors

A very interesting book. It will linger on in my head for sometime noe I've closed the book.
The story is about 3 sisters and their mother, their youth, growing up and adulthood.
The book is also about love, about wanting, needing, family relations and sacrifices.
It is a book about too many things to capture here in a few words. But it made a good impression.

Although I have Zusje van me waiting on my shelves for some time, I first read De aardbeibeet by Barbara Voors. This only because I borrowed it while a friend set to me I should definitely read it. In the first chapters I doubted this a little, as the circumstances and events were pretty vague. What has happened between Molly and her husband that Molly puts information about his sexual affairs in the booklet of the concert where he is a conductor and she plays cello?

So the beginning is show more slightly vague. Who are the people that talk about Molly. Does she really exist? But slowly it becomes clear the events are not accidental. Everything that happens to Molly is based on the Requim of Mozart. The reader starts to worry if Molly will survive...

I didn't like the character of Molly. Having affairs herself, but blame her husband when she found out he has a mistress as well. And she isn't too nice to her childern, especially to her son. Neither is she to her colleagues of even her friends. But still I'm worried about Molly the whole time.

I had to get through the beginning, but after that it was definitely worth it. An intrigueing book, that learned me something about Mozart as well. And it let's you think about your own behaviour as well.

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