The key characteristics of each girl are demonstrated with one small but clever incident. This book is immediately engaging and I thought I was in for a treat. I was really looking forward to reading this one and I’m conscious that high expectations can sometimes colour your experience of a book, so I have kept this in mind while reading the book and writing this review. They were gripping, escapist reads with great character depth, which can be revisited again and again. I have read a number of Colleen McCullough’s novels and found them all hugely enjoyable. But that upbringing contained a good deal of family tension, so they are all looking forward to the freedom and opportunities a new life will bring.
It’s a far cry from their comfortable upbringing. Kitty, Edda, Grace and Tufts are looking forward to leaving home and training as nurses.
But as the Depression hits Australia and the whole world faces unprecedented change, will life only ever bring them bittersweet compromise? I had to force myself to finish the book.Summary: The Latimer sisters are leaving home and they can’t wait. Grace is so inept because her mother spend her whole life mollycoddling and babying her and the attitude of her sister’s comes across as quite cruel. I know exactly when my enjoyment wavered, when Grace marries a man she meets and instantly falls in love with and the other characters spend many chapters dissing her marriage and her ineptness at housework and dealing with money. I’ve read very little of the author’s fiction but I expected better than this from an author so well-known and renowned. Sadly, my enjoyment didn’t last more than a few chapters before the book descended into trashy nonsense. 1 November 2013, ebook, 385 pages, borrowed from via # popsugarreadingchallenge, book with an oxymoron in the title)īittersweet started off well and I thought I was onto a winner. Will the sisters find the independence they crave? Or is life – like love – always bittersweet?Įdda and Grace, Tufts and Kitty. And now, as the Depression casts its shadow across Australia, they must confront their own secret desires as the world changes around them. But then they left home to train as nurses, swapping the feather beds of their father’s townhouse for the spartan bunks of nursing accommodation.
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