Fault Lines
by Anne Rivers Siddons
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When her daughter runs away to her aunt in California, Merritt Fowler of Georgia takes a plane to bring her back, the trip a welcome change from a demanding husband and an equally demanding mother-in-law who is suffering from Alzheimer's. The scene is set for a steamy romance during an earthquake.Tags
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Amazing storytelling where one actually cares about a number of the characters. Examines family relations where everyone assumes the main caregiver wants that role. A bit disappointed in the ending.
I enjoy Ann Rivers Siddons books, and this was no exception. Family stress over a mother-in-law with Alzheimers erupts into a run-away daughter, a fire, a movie, and a man in love with earthquakes. Some of the relationships were a bit cloying, but it was still well worth the time.
Has a lot of potential,but got a little bogged down with guilt trips.
A woman whose family has issues to put mildly takes an adventure traveling from Atlanta to Palm Springs to LA and eventually to the outskirts of Palo Alto to follow her run away daughter and conspiring sister.
Entertaining with an annoying and gratuitous ending.
In a word: awful.
This was one of Siddons's novels that really didn't do anything for me at all.
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Novelist Anne Rivers Siddons was born in Fairburn, Georgia in 1936. She studied at Auburn University in Alabama and Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. Siddons was an editor and columnist for the Auburn Plainsman, senior editor for Atlanta magazine and worked in advertising. Her treatment of the South in her novels often earns comparisons to show more Margaret Mitchell. One of her books, Peachtree Road, won her Georgia author of the year honors (1988). Her novels include: Sweetwater Creek, Off Season and Burnt Mountain. In 2014 her title, The Girls of August, made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Fault Lines
- Original publication date
- 1995
- Dedication*
- Dit boek is opgedragen aan de nagedachtenis van mijn moeder, Katherine Kitchens Rivers, die mij vergezelt op elke reis, en aan Peter Ward, die mijn pad verlichtte op deze tocht.
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