I spend most of my reading hours with books of a very different genre to this and, whilst I have read ‘Sally Red Shoes’ (which I truly enjoyed), I had no real concept of “up lit”. Can fiction be uplifting? I suppose it can, but at the end of the day it remains fiction.
What I do know is that I thoroughly enjoyed this book and it’s myriad of interesting characters, both human and canine.
Of course, it has personal relevance for me and may therefore appeal to me in ways that it would not appeal to other readers.
There are so many themes and inter-connections and, really, isn’t life often like that?
The novel does not shy away from serious issues, neither does it trivialise them, but it does not get bogged down in them either. Life goes on, as we clearly see in this novel.
And, yes, I found it uplifting, in more ways than one.
It also left me with a hankering for a Gypsy caravan in my garden, and a reading by Madame Burova.
Thank you to Readers First, Two Roads and Ruth Hogan for the ARC in return for my honest review.
What I do know is that I thoroughly enjoyed this book and it’s myriad of interesting characters, both human and canine.
Of course, it has personal relevance for me and may therefore appeal to me in ways that it would not appeal to other readers.
There are so many themes and inter-connections and, really, isn’t life often like that?
The novel does not shy away from serious issues, neither does it trivialise them, but it does not get bogged down in them either. Life goes on, as we clearly see in this novel.
And, yes, I found it uplifting, in more ways than one.
It also left me with a hankering for a Gypsy caravan in my garden, and a reading by Madame Burova.
Thank you to Readers First, Two Roads and Ruth Hogan for the ARC in return for my honest review.