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Title: The Rector's Wife by Joanna Trollope ISBN: 0-425-15529-3 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: October, 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good story!
Comment: This is story that keeps you interested -- I was amazed at how well the author captured the story of two people who really didn't know each other -- I have compassion for anyone who has to live in a marriage like this one!
Rating: 5
Summary: Still Her Best
Comment: Having read just about all of Joanna Trollope's wonderful books, I have come to regard "The Rector's Wife" as her very best, for so many reasons.
For those of us who have ever felt the despair of knowing that love alone cannot save a marriage; for those of us who have been drawn into a loved-one's depression and cannot break free; and for any mother alive who has had a hurting, unpopular child--this book describes feelings that are impossible to put into words.
Anna Bouverie (yes, I see the parallel to Madame Bovary, but Anna has more soul) is the wife of a village rector. Her life is rigidly circumscribed by the expectations of her husband's parisioners. Thus, it is important that she head certain "rotas" (I love that word; British for "rotations," meaning committee members who take turns doing church chores). It is imperative that she appear impeccable in her clothing, her behavior, her mothering, and just about everything else. This is not easy, as her stolid, dogmatic husband Peter makes such a paltry living that their children have to wear parishioners' second-hand giveaways. In fact, the Bouveries are living in a kind of static hell, although nobody but poor, miserable schoolgirl Flora seems to realize it, and her perceptions are all about being a misfit in her horrid school.
Peter and Anna are sustained by a bright vision of the future: Peter hopes to be named archdeacon, which will change their circumstances considerably. The bitter loss of this hope is the catalyst that eventually destroys Peter--and sets Anna free.
As Peter sinks inexorably into a deep, surly depression, Anna's attempts to reach him, to connect as they did when their marriage was young, are angrily rebuffed. On her own, metaphorically at least, Anna, desperate to remove Flora from the hated school and place her in another where she can thrive, takes a practical step. She gets a job stacking shelves in a supermarket, so she can earn enough money to pay for the new school.
The outraged gossip from a secretly delighted parish (not only is the rector's wife working; but she is placing their child in a Catholic school! Horrors!) Peter's icy, enraged reaction, and Anna's rebirth as a woman form the crux of the rest of the story. Events simply evolve, unstoppable and unpreventable, even as they race to their (...)conclusion.
I love this book. I love the truth of it. I love Trollope's eye for rural British life; I love her characterizations; I love her understated and measured style of writing. If you only read one Joanna Trollope book, make this the one.
Rating: 5
Summary: The tragic, yet triumphant blossoming of the dutiful wife...
Comment: of a village rector, who breaks out of her drab life, taking a job (horrors) in a supermarket to find a sense of self worth. In the process, she attracts the attentions of three unusual people! While reading this, I found myself wanting to "cheer" for Anna. Excellent portrayal of typical "narrow minded" British parish life.
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Title: A Village Affair by Joanna Trollope ISBN: 0425171094 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Choir by Joanna Trollope ISBN: 0425157180 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: A Spanish Lover by Joanna Trollope ISBN: 0425162346 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Best of Friends: Joanna Trollope by Joanna Trollope ISBN: 0425169375 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Other People's Children by Joanna Trollope ISBN: 0425174379 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 12 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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