A Special Relationship
by Douglas Kennedy
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Marrying a fellow foreign correspondent who saved her life, Sally struggles with cultural adjustments when they move to her husband's London home and finds their relationship further strained by a difficult pregnancy and a cruel betrayal.Tags
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His writing is great, characters are 3D but the middle was just too long, or maybe because I've had post partum Depression, I got and wanted him to move on. Also really interesting a Yank navigating the British health and welfare system and then the courts
This book is one of those typical relationship stories. They meet, they fall in love, surprisingly all goes well. She gets pregnant, they make a commitment and settle down. Then there are difficulties, financial and healthwise, and suddenly things fall apart.
Apart from the fact that I don't think it's a particularly original story in the first place, I also thought the author dwelled on the decline into post natal depression far too long. I was about to give up on the book because it took 200 pages before someone diagnosed her with it (although it felt more like 350). I'll give the book a 6 out of 10, because it does pick up in the end and becomes an interesting courtroom drama and gets another couple of intersting characters.
Apart from the fact that I don't think it's a particularly original story in the first place, I also thought the author dwelled on the decline into post natal depression far too long. I was about to give up on the book because it took 200 pages before someone diagnosed her with it (although it felt more like 350). I'll give the book a 6 out of 10, because it does pick up in the end and becomes an interesting courtroom drama and gets another couple of intersting characters.
Dark and interesting, and very well done. A good summer page-turner.
I really like this author - new to me recently
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A Special Relationship by Douglas Kennedy (2004)
A partir d’une situation de vie banale, Douglas Kennedy nous entraine dans un univers vacillant et cauchemardesque !! Son génie : Nous mettre tellement mal a l’aise qu’on en vient presque à se convaincre que ca peut nous arriver aussi. Ma recommandation : à ne pas lire les soirs de blues :)
May 18, 2007French
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Douglas Kennedy was born in New York City in 1955. He attended the Collegiate School at Trinity College in Dublin, and graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1976. Kennedy worked briefly as a journalist in Maine and as a stage manager in New York. In 1978, he traveled to Ireland for a two-week visit and ended up staying there, living in show more Dublin for the next 11 years. It was at this time that Kennedy began to write in his spare time, and five years later, he turned his attention to writing full-time. Kennedy first supported himself as a playwright. His early radio plays, Shakespeare on Five Dollars a Day and The Don Giovanni Blues, were broadcast by the BBC. Kennedy's first book, Beyond the Pyramids, was published in London in 1988. In the next few years, Kennedy went on to write two more travelogues and the novel The Dead Heart, none of which were ever published in the United States. It wasn't until 1997 that one of Kennedy's books made an American debut. The book, The Big Picture, focuses on a suburban yuppie lawyer who throws his life away with one sudden act of violence. A selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club, film rights have been optioned by Fox 2000 and foreign rights have been sold in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Norway, and Spain. In addition to his books, Douglas Kennedy is a much-published journalist whose work regularly appears in such London publications as The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, British GQ, and Arena. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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