The Other Side of the World (Hardcover)

from Beamis12

This is going to be a tough one. If I based me review solely on the prose, which was exceptional, or on the descriptions of life in England, Australia, and India, it would be a definite four. However, the story itself did not bowl me away. Charlotte, was not a likable character which isn't in and...

from oldblack

Back in 2010 I raved about Bishop's 2005 book, The Singing. It took me this long to get hold of another of her works, this one published in 2016. Sadly, either I have changed or her writing has changed, because I didn't find this very appealing. I think the situation was not helped by the fact th...

from SheTreadsSoftly

The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop is a recommended literary novel about searching for home and postpartum depression. It is 1963 in Cambridge. Charlotte and Henry are married, have one daughter, and are expecting another. Charlotte is going through postpartum depression and feels as...

from PhilipJHunt

Part meditiation, part story. The meditation is on the idea of home. Where are we from? Where is home? Do we have roots anywhere or are we rootless? I worried about this for our children when we took them to live overseas, far from the Land Down Under. We brought them back as they moved into thei...

from Jane-Phillips

The Other Side of the World is the story of Charlotte and Henry who migrate from England to Australia in the 60s in order to find a better life. I was drawn to this book because my family migrated from England to Canada in the late 80s.It was a readable novel and I enjoyed it.