Tag: Accident

Rescue by Anita Shreve

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The car crash should have killed her. But rookie paramedic Peter Webster takes the emergency call, and helps the young woman, Sheila, to survive. After the accident, she haunts his thoughts, despite his misgivings about getting involved with a patient.

Reviewed By C C Readers

A good , easy read but with hidden depths and understanding of complex and difficult family situations. The relationship between father and daughter is well described. The title – different kinds of rescue, physical, emotional. The ending is left hanging – happy or not?

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After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell

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Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London immediately. A few hours later, Alice is lying in a coma after an accident that may or may not have been a suicide attempt. Alice’s family gathers at her bedside and as they wait, argue, and remember, long-buried tensions emerge. The more they talk, the more they seem to conceal. Alice, meanwhile, slides between varying levels of consciousness, recalling her past and a love affair that recently ended. A riveting story that skips through time and interweaves multiple points of view, After You’d Gone is a novel of stunning psychological depth and marks the debut of a major literary talent.

Reviewed by  Ten for Books Reading Group:

Well liked by all the group, unexpectedly! Blurb does not do justice to the wonderfully unsentimental description of loss of a partner. Good characterisation, believable, interesting. This is not chick lit, but very accessible.

Star rating: ****

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Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

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One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose’s calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them – something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose’s beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.

Reviewed by Hayling Readers’ Group:

Highly recommended. A tense and unusual beginning gets the reader involved immediately. This story of obsession set in contemporary Britain, is a dramatic and gripping read.

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