This is a remarkable book to linger over and savour and especially so as it is probably Carol Shields' swan song. Reta Winters, successful as a translator and as a writer of light fiction, is happily married with a family and a lovely house. Then all her certainties are challenged when without warning her eldest daughter decides to spend her days sitting on a Toronto street corner, a sign saying 'Goodness' hanging round her neck.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 15 October 2002 ) |
