Annie John, (Paperback)

from Knicke

I liked this book a lot. Sort of Hemingway-esque in the prose style at times, but also burgeoning with sense memories. Lost a star because at times the reading became less pleasurable, but only bec...

from imagiphantaria

I didn't really know what to expect with Annie John. What I got was a genuine and poetic portrait of childhood and adolescence. By the end of it I could see myself as Annie, and all I could do was ...

from zeborah

The childhood and coming of age of the title character. Poetic, its chronology a little fuzzy at the edges without being more than a little confusing. It begins full of nostalgia for the halcyon da...

from spiralsheep

This is well written and the descriptions are interesting enough to be a 4* read, but unfortunately I didn't find the protagonist personally engaging. I'll let the following quotes speak for the bo...

from wandering_star

This book covers eight episodes in the life of a young woman growing up in Antigua. We see her as a young child, idolising her beautiful mother - then an angry adolescent, who can't quite understan...