April 2011 Debut of the Month.
This is a tear-jerking tale of a dead 42 year old coming back to look after herself from birth to death. It's dark and yet lightly told and clever and it comes with top marks from us.
Lovereading comment:
Based on an imaginative and ambitious core idea, the question that has to be asked is does this book deliver in terms of narrative and characterisation? Does it go anywhere? Does it arrest you? The answer is that if you are able to go along with the fantasy, then this is a fulfilling read. If you find the fantasy a stretch, then so might be this book. But it is worth a try.
This is the first novel by an intelligent and skillful writer from whom we cannot help feel that there are more good things to come.
Note - there is the interesting inclusion of 'Reading Group Discussion Points' at the end. Plus an author Q&A, in which she admits to being inspired, among others, by Rachmaninov, Bjork and Coldplay.
If this book is Bjork, we await Rachmaninov with interest!
She thought her life was over, but it hadn't even started. . . When Margot Delacroix dies at forty years old, she is sent back to earth as a guardian angel - to herself. Renamed Ruth, she is forced by divine mandate to re-experience and record her biggest mistakes and fiercest regrets from the beginning of her life to her untimely death.
| Primary Genre | Family Drama |
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She thought her life was over, but it hadn't even started. . . When Margot Delacroix dies at forty years old, she is sent back to earth as a guardian angel - to herself.
The Guardian Angel's Journal features in the following genres: Family Drama, Debut Books of the Month, Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
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The Guardian Angel's Journal was written by Carolyn Jess-Cooke and published by Piatkus Books an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
The Guardian Angel's Journal has 384 pages
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