( 6 reviews )
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Posted: Mar 2 2009
They say you can't go home again but in "Homeplace" you experience one woman's discovery of her past and the truth of her present when she does just that! This novel packs so much love, betrayal, frustration and all the other emotions one can expect when reuniting with family after a long estrangement. Written in the beautiful style of Anne Rivers Siddons, you better grab your Kleenex and sit back for a journey back in time, and back home again.
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Aug 5 2007
Are Editorial Reviews written by people who get paid by the word? I find the summary on this book to be so overblown it's hard to understand just what the book is about.......And I've Read It! But I won't go into the plot yet again. I think you can get a general idea of what the story is about by simply reading the back of a softbound book or the jacket of a hardcover. You should know that Siddons writes for women. Men could never understand the emotions involved in her stories but women will find a piece of themself in each and every one of them. She writes stories that keep you reading simply because they are written well. I wouldn't recommend them for someone who wants a book to read in bits and pieces, here and there. By reading it in huge clumps you become drawn into the world she created for her characters and in the end, you'll crave more. This book sits on my home library shelves and will remain there, to be read over and over, for as long as I am able to read. You won't be disappointed if you enjoy a book that makes you feel emotion and a connection with the creative characters the author writes about. Sit down in that favorite chair of yours, tell everyone to leave you alone and get ready to meet the characters in HOMEPLACE.
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( 3 of 3 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jun 16 2006
I could have sworn that I've read all of Siddons' books but when I picked this one up at a garage sale recently, it didn't ring a bell with me at all. Normally, I could pick up a book, start reading it and then after awhile, I'll start to remember the characters and the plot line ... but not this time. It's like falling in love with Anne Rivers Siddons' books all over again. This one is definitely right up there with "Outer Banks" and "The Colony" ~~ my two all-time favorite books. This one is about Micah Winship Singer also known as Mike. She was born and her birth killed her mother, her father's one and only true love. She grows up in a house filled with silence and anger and mothered by her oldest sister, Dee Dee. After an angry confrontation with her father, Mike packs up and runs away from home. She manages to stay away for 22 years till her sister calls begging her to come home and help with their father, who is dying. In the background lays a piece of land that has been in the Winship's family for years and her father, John, is devoted to it and its history. Now a developer threatens to overtake the land and tear down the house to build a road through it. Against her will, Mike became involved with the protesting against it ~~ and along the way, she discovers what love and family really is. Reading this book did hit a little too close to home since my family is undergoing some of the same issues that surrounds a family when someone dies. There is the ancient history between Mike and her father, between Mike and her sister, between Mike and her first true love, Bay, who is the town's successful realtor and there is new history between Sam, her father's attorney and herself. This is a fascinating and wonderful reading! Mike ends up rediscovering what really did matter after all. It is a really good summer reading ~~ and one that I would definitely recommend for a lazy day. It is not like Siddons' later books ~~ this one still packs a punch to the gut and pulls at the heartstrings. 6-15-06
