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Op feiten gebaseerd verhaal van een pioniersfamilie in Texas in de tijd van de onafhankelijkheids oorlog met Mexico en de noordelijke staten. Homestead wordt door Comanche overvallen en aantal kinderen worden ontvoerd. Vooral fascinerend door tijdsbeeld van die tijd.
Zoals ook haar eerdere boeken was dit een genot om te lezen, met een hoofdrol voor een vroeg wijze (ze begint haar levensverhaal voordat ze geboren is) dochter van een wat merkwaardige moeder. Beetje helderziend mogelijk, met rake observaties. Zoals ook misschien te verwachten was zit hier ook ergens een twist in het verhaal, maar die voelde minder nodig of indrukwekkend dan die uit de andere boeken.
Prima tweede deel, maar op de een of andere manier voelde deze een stuk gekunstelder (onwaarschijnlijker?) aan.
“Pam wasn't what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her.”
“Gloria didn't believe in heaven although she did occasionally worry that it was a place that existed only if you did believe in it. She wondered if people would be so keen on the idea of the next life if it was, say, underground. Or full of people like Pam.”
Een detective-serie van een van mijn favoriete auteurs. Dat merk je, want eigenlijk is het gewoon een prima roman waar toevallig ook een aantal mysteries worden opgelost. Die zijn regelmatig slechts ergens op de achtergrond aanwezig, met de focus op personages en relaties.
Teveel citaten om uit te kiezen :-)
“Sylvia had recently developed an unhealthy obsession with religion, claiming that God had spoken to her. Rosemary wondered if it was a normal phase that adolescent girls went through, if God was merely an alternative to pop stars or ponies. Rosemary decided it was best to ignore Sylvia's tête-à-têtes with the Almighty. And at least conversations with God were free, whereas the upkeep on a pony would have cost a fortune.”
“In the unlikely event of God speaking to anyone, Sylvia did not seem the obvious choice.”
“Gillian's mother told them how admirable it was that they were such independent ‘girls' with careers and mortgages and choices when what she really meant was that Gillian – an only child – was well into her thirties now and wasn't she ever going to produce a grandchild?”
“Amelia had once heard someone say that you could tell what a woman's orgasm would be like if you heard her sneeze. (As if you would want to know.) Just recollecting this thought made her uncomfortable. In case this was common knowledge, Amelia had made a point ever since then of never sneezing in public if she could help it.”
“‘He tried to stick his hands down my knickers once but I just screamed the place down. He was trying to explain fractions,' she added as if that was somehow relevant.”
“Of course, David would have friends who had a gîte in the Ardèche, wouldn't he? He was sure it wasn't coincidence that git and gîte were almost the same word.”