Jacki Milestone
This book tells how women have the ability to carry on during periods of great loss,worry and sadness, often holding the rest of the family together.It also brings out the anger a lot of women feel at our second classness in many fields .
Jean Howell
This book is full of subtle allusions to age-old dilemmas - not being able to influence your adult children, for example, and grief for their lost childhood, as well as questioning women's role in today's world.
Julie Tate
A beautiful, thoughtful and insightful book
chris killip
Unless describes perfectly the feeling of loss as one's children grow up and away from the parental home and influence. Carol Shields proved once again that she could enter the mind and soul of whoever is her main character, either male or female, in a most moving and unusual way.
Kate Baldry
I am a very slow reader so I have to choose my books carefully. This was an extraordinary book,so well written that it kept me enthralled. It shows how a traumatic event can precipitate a life change which has deep effects on the whole family. I struggled along with Reta to make sense of things. This is such an insightful book. I very much enjoyed the reading of it as your serial a while ago.
Ruth Leishman
This book confirmed my feelings that life is full of grey areas.People do things because they feel they must and there is not always a reason or a history to some actions or thoughts.This book is beautifully written - a wonderful use of language.
Marilyn Higson
This, her last novel, deals with letting go as your children move away. I read it just as our last child was leaving home and allowed me to grieve and move on myself.
Karen Morash
Unless taught me the importance of developing a voice as a woman and not worrying about who I might offend with my opinions. We often let our desire to be liked and accepted get in the way of displaying our real intellectual abilities.
Rebekah Pratt
This wonderfully crafted book takes what it means to be a woman in the world and presents it from a multitude of angles.
