Drusilla Campbell
Autor(a) de Blood Orange
About the Author
Drusilla Campbell was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1940. After graduating from San Jose State University, she spent two years hitchhiking around the world. Whenever she ran out of money, she stopped for a while and taught at elementary schools. She received an M. A. in broadcast journalism from mostrar mais American University and worked for a public-radio station in Washington, D.C. She wrote 17 novels during her lifetime including Blood Orange, The Good Sister, Bone Lake, Little Girl Gone, When She Came Home, and In Doubt. She died of lung cancer on October 24, 2014 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Drusilla Campbell
Wildwood by Drusilla Campbell (2011-07-01) 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
- Locais de residência
- San Diego, California, USA
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The Good Sister por Drusilla Campbell
Really hard subject matter. Postpartum depression/psychosis is a hard subject to read about but I think the author did an okay job showing some of the symptoms/things that can happen. The timeline jumped around a lot and it was quite an abrupt ending I thought. Here's the verdict, here's 3 years later, BOOM. Not a book I would really encourage anyone to read nor is it really a re-read.
rabck from MyssCyn; Dana's daughter was kidnapped for 3 months, then returned. Does this have anything to do with her husband's defense of a man who murdered children, and despite that David can't afford to drop the case because they are financially in the hole too deep. Dana was studying for her thesis, and when in Italy, she falls into a torrid affair with her best friend's brother, but that can't have anything to do with Bailey, can it? When Bailey is returned, Dana and David are fighting all the time, best friend Lexy is going through a crisis of faith and Bailey, a slow child, won't even talk. Everything implodes in the end & it turns out that Dana's lover took Bailey.… (mais)
It's a bit difficult to review this book and yet avoid spoilers. There are so many twists and turns in this novel that pulling one plot string tends to unravel large portions of the overall picture.
Briefly -- a young defense attorney is in the midst of defending an accused child murderer when his own family comes under assault. Is this a vigilante movement gone rogue? Or something worse?
As he, his wife, and their community continue to search for their missing daughter, multiple levels of trust and betrayal are explored and there are seldom any easy answers.
Suffice it to say this is a terrific read, and not one you will forget quickly.… (mais)
Briefly -- a young defense attorney is in the midst of defending an accused child murderer when his own family comes under assault. Is this a vigilante movement gone rogue? Or something worse?
As he, his wife, and their community continue to search for their missing daughter, multiple levels of trust and betrayal are explored and there are seldom any easy answers.
Suffice it to say this is a terrific read, and not one you will forget quickly.… (mais)
Haunting and sad, this book depicts the true story that exists behind many families. No one can be responsible for another's soul, we cannot predict what our family members can do and we can't always save them either.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 16
- Membros
- 887
- Popularidade
- #28,887
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 25
- ISBN
- 52
- Línguas
- 3