July 9, 2020
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell
#throwbackthursday
I’m linking up today with Davida @ The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog for #throwbackthursday.
This year as part of Blog Audit Challenge 2020 I’m going back to update older review posts. On Thursdays, I’ll be re-sharing a few of these great reads, and today I’m sharing my review of This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell….a complicated and multilayered family drama.
Genre/Categories: Literary Fiction, Complicated Families
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My Summary:
This Must Be the Place is a story of a collapsing and reawakening marriage. Daniel, a young American professor, travels to Ireland on holiday and family business and to stabilize his life after a failed marriage and a difficult custody battle. By chance, he meets Claudette, a world-famous actress who dramatically left the public eye for a reclusive life in a rural Irish village. Daniel and Claudette fall in love and create an idyllic life in the country and have two children of their own. A secret from Daniel’s past threatens to destroy their carefully constructed and quiet, happy life. As Daniel leaves to make peace with his past and himself, he also reunites with the American son and daughter he has not seen for several years. His story is told from his own voice and other multiple voices as he wrestles with the complexities of loyalty and devotion, family, and extraordinary love.
Continue here for my full review of This Must Be the Place …
QOTD: Have you read This Must Be the Place or is it on your TBR?
Reading Ladies 
I did enjoy this one very much – not my favorite of hers, but still really good.
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Oh, and thanks for participating!
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It’s a pleasure! And I’m accomplishing some updates at the same time! It keeps me accountable! 🙌
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I grew to like it better during our book club discussion! What’s your fav? I couldn’t finish I Am I Am….too depressing and anxiety triggering for me at the time.
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My favorite was Esme Lennox for a long time, but now it is Hamnet!
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I need to read Hamnet!
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I picked this up after Anne Bogel (Modern Mrs. Darcy) said she read it twice. I felt like you did and nearly gave up as well. By the time I got to the end I also enjoyed it but it is definitely not a favorite read nor one I would read twice.
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I guess it’s one we can check off the “literary fiction” and “Maggie O’Farrell” list!
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Read this after Anne Bogel said it was a book she rereads often. Enjoyed it, interesting complicated characters and a satisfying ending.
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I don’t think of it as one I’d like to reread but I’m not a rereader either!
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