Belana_st Hi Belana
The last part of the book was a real page-turner, putnotdownable for me, and as I noted already at the beginning, there was more to it than met the eye i.e. more than mere chatty smalltalk suggested by the cover. Though it got finished with a kind of happy ending, it was done with twists and turns, raising and heightening the tension until the climax.
What I also liked was the development of the characters, esp. Daphne’s from an innocent, to everything yes-noddy into a self-confident if not a cynical but an understanding friend, daughter and lover. And I was more than happy to learn, she was working on being excited instead of nervous about the unknown, because as she states together with the author and me, the humble reader “So many of the most beautiful things in life are unexpected.”
And in order to be able to deal with uncertainty, because life is complicated and sometimes difficult, you’ve got to stay alive, to wake up from your sleep and face the conflicts, the newness of a situation, yourself.
Daphne will remain in my memory as the happy girl in a library surrounded by books and reading to kids during Story Hour.
