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The Other Mrs Walker por Mary Paulson-Ellis
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The Other Mrs Walker (edição 2017)

por Mary Paulson-Ellis (Autor)

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The Other Mrs Walker is the beguiling debut from Mary Paulson-Ellis, for fans of Kate Atkinson and Sarah Waters.Somehow she'd always known that she would end like this. In a small square room, in a small square flat. In a small square box, perhaps. Cardboard, with a sticker on the outside. And a name . . . In a freezing, desolate Edinburgh flat an old woman takes her last breath surrounded by the few objects she has accrued over a lifetime: an emerald dress, a brazil nut engraved with the ten commandments - and six orange pips sucked dry. Meanwhile, guided by the flip of a coin, Margaret Penny arrives back at her old family home, escaping a life in London recently turned to ash. Faced with relying on a resentful mother she has never really known, Margaret soon finds herself employed by the Office for Lost People, tasked with finding the families of the dead: the neglected, the abandoned, the lost. Her instructions are to uncover paperwork, yet the only thing Mrs Walker, the old woman in her current case, left behind is a series of peculiar objects. But in the end it is these objects that will unravel Mrs Walker's real story: a story rooted in the London grime and moving from the 1930s to the present day, a story of children abandoned and lost, of beguiling sisters and misplaced mothers, of deception and thievery, family secrets and the very deepest of betrayals; in which the extraordinary circular nature of life will glitter from the page. For in uncovering the astonishing tale of an old woman who died alone, Margaret will finally discover her own story too . . .… (mais)
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Título:The Other Mrs Walker
Autores:Mary Paulson-Ellis (Autor)
Informação:Picador (2017), Edition: Main Market, 448 pages
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This is a difficult book to review. While I really enjoyed the author's writing style and I loved the setting of that cold winter in Edinburgh (I remember it well), the story really didn't work for me.

This is a particularly gloomy book. None of the characters have an easy time of it and there is a real sense of unease throughout, which is emphasised by the settings. I quite liked the different timelines and the way the story jumped about, which I found a bit confusing at first but became used to it and this for me was the best part of the story. I don't mind uncomfortable reads at all but there was no let up. I didn't really connect with any of the characters either, there was nothing endearing about any of them. The repeated mentions of certain things, the brazil nut and the clementine seeds etc., was odd and I didn't think the story needed it, nor did I need reminding of their presence quite so often. And I was completely puzzled by the last line.

In all I found this to be a muddle of a book, it was a bit like being stuck in a deep muddy puddle and I was glad when I finally struggled out of it. ( )
  Triduana | Jan 25, 2022 |
What a fantastic debut novel! The Other Mrs Walker by Mary Paulson-Elis is an absolutely gripping mystery that revolves around a woman (Margaret Penny) who's newly employed by the Office for Lost People. Her task is to find the family members of those who have died alone and unknown. She is tasked with finding out more of Mrs Walker, an elderly lady who has pretty much no connections. And all Margaret has to go on is a few peculiar objects found in Mrs Walker's little apartment.

The story unfolds spectacularly in a non-linear fashion, and kept me glued to my seat, turning the pages greedily to find out what's the deal behind Mrs Walker and Margaret Penny. I loved the author's writing voice, I actually saw some sense in governments creating a department for specifically these types of cases, and when I came to the end of the book I just wanted more.

What I especially enjoyed is that Margaret Penny isn't wet behind her ears. She's a middle-aged protagonist with a good head on her shoulders. Okay, yes, her mother comes across as awful, and anyone would be affected by it, but I liked that Margaret isn't a kid.

The Other Mrs Walker is a sad novel, especially when you realize how real the situation is when it comes to those who've been forgotten, but it's still one of the best books I've read (so far) in 2016. Definitely try and get your hands on this one if you're looking for a detective story that's a bit outside of the box.

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  MoniqueSnyman | Oct 3, 2019 |
The premise of this book sounded very promising. I love the setting and the idea behind it. I just didn't love the book itself. I did stick with the book, and I'm glad I did, but I spent a lot of my reading time trying to figure out whom I was reading about. The differing last names, Penny and Walker, appeared in different people at different times and sometimes even to the same person in the same time period. I don't mind books that have flashback chapters, but this one wasn't consistent in how those flashbacks occurred. The chapters went from 2010 to 1929 to 2011 to 1935, back to 2011, then to 1933, back to 2011, then to 1937. You get the idea. The flashbacks are not sequential, and they continue that way throughout the book. It made for a very confusing read, at least to me. Still, I kept on reading. I was disappointed in the ending. ( )
  hobbitprincess | Sep 22, 2018 |
Not a great read. I found it very confusing the way we went from today to yesterday from person to person. Even the end was a little let down but probably the right way to end the book ( )
  joannemonck | Dec 27, 2017 |
What an intriguing and fascinating book this is. Having just finished it, I feel like I need to go back to the beginning and read it all again as I suspect there are a lot of things that I missed as I read it.

Margaret Penny is almost 50 with little to show for her life. She goes back to her mother's in Edinburgh and ends up working for an organisation that tries to find out who the indigent dead are, when there are no relatives. She is looking into the case of an old lady who has died alone, with only a few very strange possessions to her name. We follow a story which jumps around the 1930s, 40s, 60s, 80s and 2011 and not in chronological order. If you like your stories told in a linear fashion then this is definitely not a book for you. This is part of the reason I felt I had missed things because, of course, some of them only make sense when a chronologically earlier part of the story is told.

Anyway, this ended up being a really fascinating read for me. The author writes a good story with quirky and largely unlikable characters, linked by some very unusual items. Comparisons have been made with Sarah Waters and Kate Atkinson and somewhere around the half way mark I did think to myself that there were similarities with some of Sarah Waters' writing. Being compared with either of those writers is praise indeed, but Mary Paulson-Ellis has a style all of her own and I really enjoyed her debut novel. ( )
  nicx27 | Mar 19, 2016 |
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The Other Mrs Walker is the beguiling debut from Mary Paulson-Ellis, for fans of Kate Atkinson and Sarah Waters.Somehow she'd always known that she would end like this. In a small square room, in a small square flat. In a small square box, perhaps. Cardboard, with a sticker on the outside. And a name . . . In a freezing, desolate Edinburgh flat an old woman takes her last breath surrounded by the few objects she has accrued over a lifetime: an emerald dress, a brazil nut engraved with the ten commandments - and six orange pips sucked dry. Meanwhile, guided by the flip of a coin, Margaret Penny arrives back at her old family home, escaping a life in London recently turned to ash. Faced with relying on a resentful mother she has never really known, Margaret soon finds herself employed by the Office for Lost People, tasked with finding the families of the dead: the neglected, the abandoned, the lost. Her instructions are to uncover paperwork, yet the only thing Mrs Walker, the old woman in her current case, left behind is a series of peculiar objects. But in the end it is these objects that will unravel Mrs Walker's real story: a story rooted in the London grime and moving from the 1930s to the present day, a story of children abandoned and lost, of beguiling sisters and misplaced mothers, of deception and thievery, family secrets and the very deepest of betrayals; in which the extraordinary circular nature of life will glitter from the page. For in uncovering the astonishing tale of an old woman who died alone, Margaret will finally discover her own story too . . .

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