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I absolutely loved this book! When I first began reading it, I wasn’t totally sure how to react to the changing viewpoints and the changing time frames. Then it all came together for me and I realized how brilliantly she was creating this couple, Daniel and Claudette, and all the connections that led to them. This book is about love, loss, heartbreak, joy and finding your place in it all. I became so invested in Daniel and Claudette and their children and even a woman who shows up for just one chapter. Flawed people like everyone one of us. I finished the book and immediately felt bereft at leaving them behind. One of my all time favourite books was The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Maggie O'Farrell which I found captivating and as intricately written. O’Farrell’s style plus my head equals bliss. The language slays me. I’ve said this with each of O’Farrell’s books and I’ll say it again: There is something about the way she writes that matches the chemicals in my brain and the blood in my veins. I read her sentences, I feel good. Plain and simple. I like the cadence of her language. It’s sophisticated. She does this thing with commas, where she gives you long sentences with cool lists, except they’re not all numbered and fact-ful and left-brained like your typical list. These sentences describe, of course, but they flow, they exude, they gently and swiftly pull together a bunch of thoughts that she has sneakily planted in my head. I’m getting too heady and weird. The only thing you need to remember is that her language does me in.
a b c d e f "Interview: Paolo Sorrentino Talks 'This Must Be The Place' | The Irish Film & Television Network". www.iftn.ie . Retrieved 2019-02-15. Adams, Paul P. (September 9, 2010). "Bad Axe is the Place". Huron Daily Tribune. Hearst Corporation. Archived from the original on October 30, 2010 . Retrieved October 30, 2010. A ONE OF A KIND NOVEL! A saga of sorts ...but very unique crafting. I’ll definitely read more books by Maggie O’Farrell. This Must Be the Place premiered on May 20, 2011 in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival. [13] It was additionally screened in the Spotlight section of the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012. [14] The film made its theatrical debut in the United States on October 14, 2012. [15] Critical response [ edit ] This is one of the most thoughtful, literate books I've read in a long time. The story of a man, Daniel Sullivan, reveals both the good and the bad sides of him, the joys and sorrows and what motivates him. The story is divided into chapters narrated by many different people who have impacted his life in so many ways. The book also skips throughout time from 1944 to 2016 but is quite easy to follow. What emerges is a well developed story of a man.
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I can see those 12 gates perfectly. O’Farrell is so good at creating a sense of place. I especially liked the description of Daniel’s and Claudette’s property. And there’s a scene at the beginning of the book where Claudette has to get out of the car to open and close 12 gates as she and Daniel are leaving their house. It was very creative and spectacularly written. Movie companies shoot scenes in Sterling Heights". City of Sterling Heights, MI. September 23, 2010. Archived from the original on October 30, 2010 . Retrieved October 30, 2010. This Must Be The Place is the seventh novel by British author, Maggie O’Farrell. Claudette Wells is Daniel Sullivan’s second wife. Even after several years of living together in a remote corner of Donegal, and fathering two children with her, he still finds it hard to believe that this eccentric, occasionally crazy, reclusive and beautiful ex-film star ever agreed to marry him. Later, he will remember this, and wonder what possessed him to put all that at risk. But now, a chance snippet of a radio broadcast, heard on the way to the train, sets him on a path to his past.
Daniel has two other children who live in California, a failed first marriage- and another woman in his past who plagues his thoughts. Native New Yorker Daniel, married to eccentric, reclusive ex-film star Claudette, lives in the wilds of Ireland with their two young children. Daniel, however, has an ex-wife and two kids living in California, kids he hasn't seen since he walked out on them years ago. He decides to return to New York, his first visit for several years, to attend his father's 90th birthday party. He's doing this with a certain amount of reluctance, but whilst there, why not just nip across to California and meet these estranged kids. So far, so good. A dazzling novel from bestselling writer Maggie O'Farrell, winner of the Costa Novel Award—an irresistible love story that crisscrosses continents and time zones as it captures an extraordinary marriage, and an unforgettable family, with wit, humor, and deep affection. She wasn’t going to look at him again, no, she wasn’t….. Then she did look and the same sensations hit again, like a row of dominoes toppling into each other: the towering sense of recognition, the disbelief that she doesn’t somehow know him, the ridiculousness that they do not know each other, the impossibility of them not seeing each other again”
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He thinks of his grief over his sister as an entity that is horribly and painfully attached to him, the way a jellyfish might adhere to your skin or a goitre or an abscess. He pictures it as viscid, amorphous, spiked, hideous to behold. He finds it unbelievable that no one else can see it. Don’t mind that, he would say, it’s just my grief. Please ignore it and carry on with what you were saying” is another example. All provided power supplies will comply with the required standards for the country they are being delivered to. E.G. CE for Europe, UL for the USA etc. This Must Be the Place is at its heart a love story, one about the magic of finding that person that you are meant to be with, the one who understands you, who gets you. And yet, it is the story of how fragile that connection can be, how easily damaged, how difficult to hold on to. It is about marriage, lives built and torn down, roads taken and regretted, and the way the past haunts the present and changes the future. I have always felt that O’Farrell expertly straddles the (perhaps imaginary) line between literary and popular fiction; her books are addictively readable but also hold up to critical scrutiny.
Ideally, we would publish every review we receive, whether positive or negative. However, we won’t display any review that includes or refers to (among other things): Weissberg, Jay (2011-05-20). "This Must Be the Place". Variety. Archived from the original on 2011-05-27 . Retrieved 2011-05-20. The title of this book is is terrific. For me ...it guided stimulating thoughts of HOME, BE HERE NOW, THE PAST, THE FUTURE, and.....THIS *MUST* BE THE PLACE.Loads of characters with character. Complex, unique, robust, vivid—a little list of traits that tell you why I love the characters. I don’t know how in the world O’Farrell creates these guys. I feel like I know them, even the minor ones, and I feel what they are feeling. Daniel and Claudette are flawed for sure (especially Daniel), but I still was drawn to both of them. There are numerous kids and they all are fascinating—strong, loveable, smart, with challenges—and there isn’t an ounce of sap (often authors can’t help throwing in some syrup whenever there are kids). I noticed that she modeled one great kid character after her own daughter, who has a medical condition that she describes in her memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. This connection made the character even richer. O’Farrell squints, looks inside people’s heads, and spews out all of her psychological insight. The way O’Farrell weaves everyone’s lives together is nothing short of brilliant. Highly recommend this book, but be patient till you get into the flow. It won’t take long, I promise.
On a quest to locate his grandfather's remains, Daniel Sullivan, an American professor of Linguistics, finds himself on a lonely road in northwest Ireland. There he encounters a young boy with a stutter, and a secret. The boy's mother, Claudette Wells, was one of the world's most famous movie stars. Then one day, on a yacht tour of a Swedish archipelago, she and her infant son — who is now the pre-teen Daniel meets in the Irish wilds — disappear. We take a journey with Daniel......meeting a cast of characters who each live with challenges and troubles. Daniel has been carrying around a secret for years. These complex characters make for complex relationships and this is what made them feel so much like real people and real things in our lives . This is about a couple , about their pasts and the secrets they carry, about remorse, about personal crises , about coping with grief , about how all of this shapes who they are as individuals and who they are together . They are not perfect and there is plenty about them not to like, but yet I couldn't help caring about these two essentially good people and their children . Maggie O'Farrell is a master at creating stories that will keep you feeling and thinking throughout. Highly recommended! I made some tea....settled in, and was ‘really’ thankful to ALL THE OTHER READERS WHO CAME BEFORE ME.....
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The “Naive Melody” part of the title refers to the repetitive guitar and keyboard bassline played by relative amateurs — Tina Weymouth and David Byrne played the guitar and keyboards respectively, even though Weymouth was the bassist and Byrne usually played guitar. This “naivety”, with a “less is more” philosophy, adds a charming sense of simplicity to the song that reflects the theme of everything being at peace. O’Farrell has done it again! This extended family, this cast of characters, they pull the reader in. She draws each of them so well, with all their flaws and foibles, that the reader cannot help but find them appealing, hoping that things will turn out okay for them, laughing with them when they do and shedding a tear or two when they don’t.
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