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Bent Road: A Novel

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The property sits perfectly for access to local villages and their amenities as well as highly regarded schooling and major commuting routes.

Coincidentally (or not) the niece, Evie, seems to hold a strong resemblance to her dead aunt, and the author would have us believe that there are only three people in all of Kansas with fair hair and blue eyes, for when a classmate of Evie's -- also with blond hair and blue eyes -- disappears, everyone in town seems to think that there's a person stalking girls with blond hair and blue eyes. The interaction among the family members that the secret has caused is wonderfully described by the author. This splendid master suite is really the height of opulence with character again oozing from the room.

I was looking forward to reading this due to all the positive reviews, but I just did not like this book much. Many poorer areas lack a majority age group, which is due in part to the people in that area being constrained by circumstance rather than being able to choose where to retire, raise a family or grow up. As a young man, Arthur fled his small Kansas hometown, moved to Detroit, married Celia, and never looked back.

However the Scott family starts changing unavoidably when Ruth and Reesa are part of the family again. This outstanding debut novel soars with a keen sense of place, crisply descriptive prose and finely etched strong characters and plot. Arthur’s wife must come to terms with being a farm wife, as she struggles with Arthur’s secret past and what drove him away from his home here so long ago. I get that this is set in the mid to late 1960s, but seriously, this was obsessive to the point of being irritating, and it's never given any context to show the reader WHY it's so important. This fabulous room affords a plethora of character features with the focal point being the inglenook style fireplace with solid fuel burning stove.Don't be fooled by the novel's apparent simplicity: What emerges from the surface is a tale of extraordinary emotional power, one of longstanding pain set against the pulsating drumbeat of social change, a rhythm the Scott family wishes could be ignored but which affects them regardless.

Besides being a fabulous read, Bent Road had the honor of rescuing me from the tedious read that The Gathering has thus far been. Lauder was born in his maternal grandfather’s house in Bridge Street Portobello Edinburgh, the eldest of seven children to John Lauder, a Master Potter, and his wife Isabella Urquhart Macleod née McLennan. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. More literary fiction than mystery, Lori Roy's Bent Road is a fabulous debut novel from an author who has earned her right to be on my permanent radar.Tuphall Road (A) is shown from it’s junction with Quarry Street and Bent Road, with the Gasholder (B) to it’s right. To survive as a family, they each have to face the prejudices within themselves as well as within the community, discover the truth behind the secrets they've hidden from each other for twenty years and redefine the moral boundaries that the change of locale forces them to examine. BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. The disappearance of a young girl the week the family moves back makes everything even more creepy and threatening.

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