The Way the Crow Flies (Paperback)

from andrearules

I picked this book up in the local thrift store, based purely on the cover. Wow. This is such a captivating, and sometimes uncomfortable and disturbing, novel. I really enjoyed it. Especially because you keep getting surprised by the truth behind what you think happened.

from Britt1075

This book took me a little while to get into but after I was half way through the book it really picked up. Nine year old Madeleine has moved with her family to the RCAF airforce base in Centralia, Ontario, Canada. While there things happen to make her grow up faster than she should and the posti...

from Bcteagirl

I enjoyed this book, although I did enjoy the first half of the book with Madelaine as a child more than the second half. The writing of this book is beautiful, to me it sort of 'echoes'. You read it once... then it hits you.. and it is so beautiful that you read the section again. The book start...

from lauralkeet

Madeleine McCarthy is 8 years old in 1962, when her family moves from a Royal Canadian Air Force station in Germany to their next posting, in Centralia, Ontario, Canada. At the very beginning of this book, the author foreshadows the murder of a young child. But first, the reader is immersed in al...

from tangledthread

April 2007 book group selection. This is a good story that could have been told in a good deal less that 700+ pages. Character development and story line progression was good. However, close to half of the metaphors and environmental descriptions could have been edited to improve the flow of the ...