Fall on your knees

By Ann-Marie Mac Donald

My quest for extraordinary fiction took me to this nook. Ah that rhymes.

My quest for a book
Took me to this curious nook
I took a long look
And it got me hooked, booked and cooked.

Certainly, Ann-Marie is a poetess. Not ‘crude but compelling’ like mine above. Pure and simple poem.

While 75% through the book, you wont know what’s going on, just to go on reading this extraordinary book is a pleasure.
It’s a strange book, definitely. And there are stranger people in it. It’s about the Piper sisters, but you need to check out the family tree to figure out if they are really sisters.

There is Frances, daring and out of this world, there is Materia – poor Materia, there is Mercedes and there is Lily. And then there is Kathleen and Rose and an extraordinary love story, quite unforgettable. Of course there is James, lurking in the back, always.

The book is a bit magical and it’s a bit sad – but it’s worth reading and owning.

Mc Donald seems to outdo herself with some of her prose and the romance. After 75% its worth the wait to read the extraordinary last part and the way in which it is written. Lovely.

I am not into mush and romance, but to look beyond the romance and see the play of words to bring out a point – extraordinary. Mac Donald is an extraordinary writer.

A peek:

I was a ghost until I touched you. Never swallowed mortal food until I tasted you, never understood the spoken word until I found your tongue. I have been a sleep-walker, sad somnambula, hands outstretched to strike the solid thing that could awaken me to life at last. I’ve missed you all my life.

Took me long to part with it.

Please Read. I would again.

Random House Review