A Year of Marvellous Ways (Paperback)

from indygo88

The title has a double meaning, but Marvellous Ways is the name of the main character. Marvellous is nearly 90 years old, lives alone in an old gypsy caravan, and seems to be waiting. Waiting for what? Even she is not sure, but when a young man (Drake), back from the war seemingly lost & depresse...

from nicx27

I wanted to read this book because I enjoyed When God Was a Rabbit but A Year of Marvellous Ways didn't quite hit the spot for me. It's very whimsical with a flowery writing style and when I started reading it I wasn't sure I would finish it but actually I did get quite into it. I would definitel...

from natsalvo

Sarah Winman's A Year of Marvellous Ways has a lot in common with Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant. Both novels are beautifully written and blend fantasy with a kind of understated realism. And in Winman's case, there may be some nice writing to be savoured but it is also a frustrating read over...

from jenn88

Marvellous Ways is in her ninetieth year. For nearly all her life she has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek. She's been spending her days sitting by the river with her telescope, waiting for something but not yet sure what that something could be.Drake is a young soldier who has survived the ...

from amaraki

Such beautiful prose. There were so many lines in this book that I cherished. "The truth was he had never known Missy Hall, He had run towards a feeling, and the feeling was his, and there had been little else there." (121) "As he walked away the clouds opened and a gentle rain fell. Her grace fa...