Una narración muy cuidada con una voz clara y elegante. La historia de un amor que empieza en un verano casi irreal y que sobrevive a la guerra y al paso del tiempo. Hay momentos difíciles, y me habría gustado conocer mejor los sentimientos de Tom, pero me ha mantenido pegada a sus páginas hasta ...
The Last Summer is a story about an upstairs / downstairs relationship between Clarissa and Tom Cuthbert. Clarissa first meets Tom when she is just seventeen years old and have a romance that isn’t what Clarissa’s mother wants. Throughout the novel, you live the affair that Clarissa and Tom carry...
By three o’clock it had risen to eighty-nine. Rosetta predicted another of her turns if the heat did not abate, and sat holding a damp towel to her head at the kitchen table, from time to time muttering expletives. Madeline was in her workroom, as usual, wrestling with swaths of green velvet: the...
But beneath an atmosphere of resignation, of quiet acceptance, was the nervous energy of departure. Outside, intermittent rain washed away the graying snow, leaving dirty peaks along the sides of forgotten pathways. Inside, Christmas was abandoned as trunks were brought do...
He’d told me, and more than once, that it was all he was living for, to marry me. In the end, there seemed little point in waiting. Both Mama and the Boyds had said so. ‘The sooner you marry the better,’ Mama had said. ‘It will give poor Charlie the motivation he needs to pull through and make a ...