Family Reunion
by Carol Smith
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Odile Rochefort Annesley has been in self-imposed exile in France for forty years, following a familiy tragedy. When, with her eightieth birthday approaching, she contacts her scattered grandchildren to give them details of her will, her five quite different grand-daughters see it as an excellent reason for a family get-together. Solidly-married Clemency; ambitious London property dealer, Madeleine; Parisian dress-designer, Elodie; cautious Isabelle from Quebec who has inherited the family show more brains; and poor, deprived misfit, Cherie, with the oddly-developing child, meet and start to get acquainted as they plan a big surprise party. Each has grown up in a different world but all share the same characteristics as families do. The nose, the determination, the loyalty, the wit. Then there's Cousin Harry, the golden architect with secret problems and a make-believe marriage which may not be all it's cracked up to be. The boys are to share the money, the girls the rest, but high-living Harry needs it all and now, which is where the trouble really begins. As the five women's lives begin to merge, each has a secret she is trying not to share... show lessTags
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Right up to the end this was good and interesting, however, in the end there were just too many people involved to make a really compelling ending. And the secrets I hung in there so long to discover weren’t really adequately explained enough to give them punch. Needs editing and tightening to be more effective.
Quite an interesting read at the beginning but the ending was a bit of a let down.
An unexpected ending..
« Petits Meurtres en Famille », Carol Smith, 1999
Sans aucun doute, ce livre conviendra aux invétérés du suspens. L’histoire s’articule sur fond de secrets de familles, tabous, non-dits… qui pourrait d’ailleurs fort ressembler à un fait divers. Malgré tout, un petit reproche … avant d’avoir posé le décor et l’intrigue et de part les multitudes ramifications familiales entre cousins, cousines, oncles, etc, , il vous aura fallu avalé une bonne moitié du bouquin. Ceci dit, vous l’aurez compris l’arbre généalogique de la famille Anesley est assez dru et complexe
Mon vote : j’ais vraiment aimé ! Et 400 pages en format poche, il y a pire ! Côté suspens, la recette est implacable, on se croirait presque dans show more un univers tout droit venu de l’imagination d’ Agatha Christie. A lire show less
Sans aucun doute, ce livre conviendra aux invétérés du suspens. L’histoire s’articule sur fond de secrets de familles, tabous, non-dits… qui pourrait d’ailleurs fort ressembler à un fait divers. Malgré tout, un petit reproche … avant d’avoir posé le décor et l’intrigue et de part les multitudes ramifications familiales entre cousins, cousines, oncles, etc, , il vous aura fallu avalé une bonne moitié du bouquin. Ceci dit, vous l’aurez compris l’arbre généalogique de la famille Anesley est assez dru et complexe
Mon vote : j’ais vraiment aimé ! Et 400 pages en format poche, il y a pire ! Côté suspens, la recette est implacable, on se croirait presque dans show more un univers tout droit venu de l’imagination d’ Agatha Christie. A lire show less
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Carol Smith lives in London, England. (Bowker Author Biography)
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