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Highly recommend this book, but be patient till you get into the flow. It won’t take long, I promise. I absolutely loved this book! When I first began reading it, I wasn’t totally sure how to react to the changing viewpoints and the changing time frames. Then it all came together for me and I realized how brilliantly she was creating this couple, Daniel and Claudette, and all the connections that led to them. If you're new to Maggie O'Farrell I suggest you try some of her earlier books – leave this one and possibly Instructions For a Heatwave off your to-read list.
To all appearances, I am a husband, a father, a teacher, a citizen, but when tilted toward the light I become a deserter, a sham, a killer, a thief. On the surface I am one thing, but underneath I am riddled with holes and caverns, like a limestone landscape.” I want to feel the edge. It’s funny that the other two O’Farrell books I read had a lot of suspense, because neither one was a thriller. Still, with both of them I was on the edge of my seat most of the time. This book didn’t have suspense, and I missed sitting on the edge. Movie companies shoot scenes in Sterling Heights". City of Sterling Heights, MI. September 23, 2010. Archived from the original on October 30, 2010 . Retrieved October 30, 2010. The Daniel-Claudette story aside, O’Farrell let us get to know Ari, Niall, Phoebe, Marithe and Calvin quite intimately. This brood of children are real persons with their own struggles and I feel like I have met and known them. They are a lot more likeable than Daniel or Claudette. Ideally, we would publish every review we receive, whether positive or negative. However, we won’t display any review that includes or refers to (among other things):This Must Be The Place is built upon two such meetings. The first happens in a remote corner of Donegal, Ireland. Claudette Wells, a reclusive Oscar-winning actress, stands on a country road with her young son Ari, their car immobilised by a flat tyre. Daniel Sullivan, a linguist from Brooklyn, is in the area to scatter his grandfather's ashes. He stumbles upon this scene and comes to their aid. There is an immediate attraction - Daniel is completely smitten, Claudette is intrigued by this charming man who is so at ease with her son. Years later they are married with two more children. But Daniel has dark secrets in his past that eventually surface and threaten the existence of their unlikely relationship. These complex characters make for complex relationships and this is what made them feel so much like real people and real things in our lives . This is about a couple , about their pasts and the secrets they carry, about remorse, about personal crises , about coping with grief , about how all of this shapes who they are as individuals and who they are together . They are not perfect and there is plenty about them not to like, but yet I couldn't help caring about these two essentially good people and their children . Maggie O'Farrell is a master at creating stories that will keep you feeling and thinking throughout. Highly recommended!
Here was a fifty-year-old who still completely identified with a look which, by definition, is that of an adolescent. But there was nothing pathetic about it. There was just this one thing that, in the movies and in life, creates an incredible feeling of wonder: the extraordinary, a unique and thrilling exception. [5] This is an ambitious novel - 28 sprawling chapters told by multiple narrators from locations as far-flung as India and Bolivia. Some of these characters I loved. The plight of Daniel's son Niall broke my heart on more than one occasion. Born with a chronic skin disease, he is a caring and thoughtful person who endures more than his fair share of suffering (I've since learned that Maggie O'Farrell's own daughter is affected by a similar ailment, which she wrote poignantly about here). Rosalind is another memorable and likable individual - she imparts some valuable marriage advice to Daniel when he needs it most. Other characters I felt did not deserve their own chapter. Others still I believe we did not learn enough about (Daniel's daughter Phoebe for example).
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Principal photography began on 16 August 2010 in Dublin, Ireland. [4] In September, production moved to Michigan where filming took place in Bad Axe, Ubly, Kinde [8] and Sterling Heights. [9] Filming in New Mexico began in October and took place in Bingham, Alamogordo, Carrizozo, Eagle Nest, Red River and Questa. [6] Post-production took place in Rome. [6] Other gushables. (Attention: Just because the following list is all staccato, it doesn’t mean they are minor gushables): She is tired, down to her bones, soaked right through, like a rag, with exhaustion but she is simultaneously filled with an effervescent glee, an irrepressible thrill.” I loved that so much of this story was set in this reclusive spot in Donegal, and especially that it begins there. I love the way that O’Farrell sprinkled little clues along the way as she goes, a word here or there that gives you insight into a character, or a reaction that says something that comes to you later on as you’re reading. Claudette and Daniel are so frustratingly human, prone to saying or doing the wrong thing, and not grasping how to undo the damage. O’Farrell seems to have this down to an art, her ability to make these people so perfectly imperfect that we pull them close to us, and want to spend our time with them. Each review score is between 1-10. To get the overall score that you see, we add up all the review scores we’ve received and divide that total by the number of review scores we’ve received. In addition, guests can give separate ‘subscores’ in crucial areas, such as location, cleanliness, staff, comfort, facilities, value for money and free Wi-Fi. Note that guests submit their subscores and their overall scores independently, so there’s no direct link between them.
Across the pond, Philip French at The Observer hastens to sing the film’s praises, calling it “irritatingly eccentric” and writing that the film’s conclusion “is as misguided, and nearly as offensive, as the concentration camp sequences of Life Is Beautiful, the movie that brought Oscars to Sorrentino’s compatriot Roberto Benigni. Along the way there are occasional arresting images, but they prove minor compensations.” Daniel heads off to New York, to his (not at all beloved) father’s 90th birthday party, makes an unplanned detour to California see the son and daughter from whom he has been kept for nine years by a vindictive ex-wife, then detours again to Sussex. What he learns there has such a profound effect on him, it threatens to derail the best thing in his life.
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