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Letters to Iris
by Elizabeth Noble
3.5 Stars.
I received a free digital copy of this book from the publishers/author via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
When Tess finds herself unexpectantly pregnant and single, she feels very much alone until she meets Gigi, a relative of a man in the same nursing home as Tess’s grandmother. As Tess continues her pregnancy, the two women battle their own personal troubles but also end up becoming unlikely friends.
This was a lovely read, and one I would definitely recommend to anyone looking for that snuggly couch read, or a book you could bring on holidays and get stuck into on the plane, or by a pool. I immediately felt warm to Tess and Gigi - the both of them were lovely characters, and I really enjoyed the different family dynamics they had from Tess’s relationship to her mother and grandmother to Gigi’s strained marriage and her close relationship to her sons. I also loved a healthy, close bond being represented between a mother and daughter-in-law as sometimes this is a relationship that tends to get a reputation as always being strained and rival-like. Gigi is definitely the kind of person I’d want as a mother-in-law, I definitely wanted a Gigi hug and pep talk throughout this book.
Tess’s story was lovely, despite the occasional dips of sadness with Iris’s illness and then her tragic backstory with her brother. I thought the romance with Ollie was predictable but perfectly lovely and I couldn’t help myself but root for it (while finding it completely unbelievable seeing as Tess was heavily pregnant with another man’s child). I had some problems with some of the language used in Tess’s passages to her unborn child, more so just the earlier ones when she was only about four weeks pregnant and there seemed to be this huge emphasis on the foetus being a person rather than just a foetus, and I feel like this could be damaging to women reading who could be pregnant and may have to choose a termination for reasons personal to them. I am overly sensitive to this kind of thing at the moment thought because of current political climate in Ireland, so this is something others probably wouldn’t pick up on.
The ending was nice and safe and warm. It more or less all came together exactly how I thought it would be. This book is nothing grand or spectacular, just an enjoyable read.
I received a free digital copy of this book from the publishers/author via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
When Tess finds herself unexpectantly pregnant and single, she feels very much alone until she meets Gigi, a relative of a man in the same nursing home as Tess’s grandmother. As Tess continues her pregnancy, the two women battle their own personal troubles but also end up becoming unlikely friends.
This was a lovely read, and one I would definitely recommend to anyone looking for that snuggly couch read, or a book you could bring on holidays and get stuck into on the plane, or by a pool. I immediately felt warm to Tess and Gigi - the both of them were lovely characters, and I really enjoyed the different family dynamics they had from Tess’s relationship to her mother and grandmother to Gigi’s strained marriage and her close relationship to her sons. I also loved a healthy, close bond being represented between a mother and daughter-in-law as sometimes this is a relationship that tends to get a reputation as always being strained and rival-like. Gigi is definitely the kind of person I’d want as a mother-in-law, I definitely wanted a Gigi hug and pep talk throughout this book.
Tess’s story was lovely, despite the occasional dips of sadness with Iris’s illness and then her tragic backstory with her brother. I thought the romance with Ollie was predictable but perfectly lovely and I couldn’t help myself but root for it (while finding it completely unbelievable seeing as Tess was heavily pregnant with another man’s child). I had some problems with some of the language used in Tess’s passages to her unborn child, more so just the earlier ones when she was only about four weeks pregnant and there seemed to be this huge emphasis on the foetus being a person rather than just a foetus, and I feel like this could be damaging to women reading who could be pregnant and may have to choose a termination for reasons personal to them. I am overly sensitive to this kind of thing at the moment thought because of current political climate in Ireland, so this is something others probably wouldn’t pick up on.
The ending was nice and safe and warm. It more or less all came together exactly how I thought it would be. This book is nothing grand or spectacular, just an enjoyable read.