Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92046 in Books
• Published on: 1992-04-13
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

Made me cry so much !!!!!
This is such a great book. I cried so much at the end I couldnt read the words but obviously had to continue. Such a story of love and want amoungst diversity. We have a book club and my next choice is this! As any reader will tell you, dont watch the film first the book is a million times better !!

little gem of a book
I have loved this book since the first time i read it many years ago.
I have to say its one of my favourite books of all time.
Yeah in parts its badly written but that doesn't really matter as it probably adds to the story as it makes it a bit rough about the edges. Its about the only book that can really make me cry. Definately a book for the girls .
Oh just to say that i hated the movie. Could nt even watch it to the end as i was so dissappointed.

It's a novel about adultery
I think one should be very wary of allowing this story to over-romanticize the relationship between Francesca and Robert. This is NOT about meeting the perfect person and feeling whole after you've met him. That's what happened when she met her husband. And she ought not to have let her feelings stale into contempt. I mean it's very hard, and it almost always happens that contempt does grow up when you don't have a strong faith to keep you fighting. This story is touching, I think, in the sense that it shows that even good marriages, where people stay together, are subject to great temptations, and that everybody sins. It is very lucky to escape, maybe impossible. The great thing about Francesca is that she stays with her family - and not just for a while, but for ever. That does not happen because Robert has given her something, but because she realises, having sinned, how she has betrayed them. surely that's the only thing she might credibly feel, all kinds of "in love-ness" would disappear like smoke. What is cruel about it for her is that she could not be like that from the beginning, but deceit had to enter into it. It's a nice story, but I think it is dangerous, if people don't see the actual truth of it. We should NO WAY share in her contempt for her husband.