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Three Things About Elsie
by Joanna Cannon
"..but love paper-aeroplanes where it pleases. I have found that it settles in the most unlikely of places, and once it has, you're left with the burden of where it has landed for the rest of your life."
The three things about Elise are that:
She is Florence’s best Friend.
She always knows the right thing to say and
Well, I instinctively understood the third thing about Elise from the beginning. But some of you may not until the end. And as Flo says it really doesn’t matter much if you know or not. So I will let you find out for yourself at your own pace.
This is a tale of an older persons' assisted living home where the new resident may not be all he appears. Is our main protagonist losing her marbles or is a villain from her past back to torment her?
In her second novel, Joanna Cannon once more brings to life the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.
She speaks of the everyday loneliness that makes up so much of our lives and our deep need for human connections.
“The only problem is, I’ve spent so long standing at the edge that when I finally turn away, I doubt there is anyone in this world who will even notice.”
She speaks of how we sometimes patronise and rarely listen to the older generation.
“It was tempting to imagine Jack had arrived on this earth fully fashioned, grey-haired and stooped, and wearing a flat cap; to imagine all of the residents had jumped from birth to senility in one fatal leap.”
She colours our world with beautiful descriptions of the ordinary.
“They will lift me up and carry me down the outside steps, and as they do, I will look out over the town, at the liquid ink of the night and the lights that shine from other people’s lives, and it will seem as though I am flying."
And she does it all with a dash of good humor
“Although I suppose losing your mind can prove quite helpful sometimes, because it does hint there is a possibility, however slim, that you may find it again."
At the heart of the story is a mystery related to Florence’s and Elsie's past. It is not very difficult to guess ( I had gathered more or less what it was from the beginning) and in places, it rather depends a little too much on coincidence. However, the charm in Joanna Cannon’s books is the protagonists finally facing their own guilt and understanding their own pasts and presents for what they truly are.
Recommended for those who loved Joanna’s first novel [b:The Trouble with Goats and Sheep|27276280|The Trouble with Goats and Sheep|Joanna Cannon|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1468174334s/27276280.jpg|46094423] and for those who like an older protagonist solving a mystery of her own past such as in [b:Elizabeth Is Missing|18635113|Elizabeth Is Missing|Emma Healey|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388883559s/18635113.jpg|24946905]
The three things about Elise are that:
She is Florence’s best Friend.
She always knows the right thing to say and
Well, I instinctively understood the third thing about Elise from the beginning. But some of you may not until the end. And as Flo says it really doesn’t matter much if you know or not. So I will let you find out for yourself at your own pace.
This is a tale of an older persons' assisted living home where the new resident may not be all he appears. Is our main protagonist losing her marbles or is a villain from her past back to torment her?
In her second novel, Joanna Cannon once more brings to life the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.
She speaks of the everyday loneliness that makes up so much of our lives and our deep need for human connections.
“The only problem is, I’ve spent so long standing at the edge that when I finally turn away, I doubt there is anyone in this world who will even notice.”
She speaks of how we sometimes patronise and rarely listen to the older generation.
“It was tempting to imagine Jack had arrived on this earth fully fashioned, grey-haired and stooped, and wearing a flat cap; to imagine all of the residents had jumped from birth to senility in one fatal leap.”
She colours our world with beautiful descriptions of the ordinary.
“They will lift me up and carry me down the outside steps, and as they do, I will look out over the town, at the liquid ink of the night and the lights that shine from other people’s lives, and it will seem as though I am flying."
And she does it all with a dash of good humor
“Although I suppose losing your mind can prove quite helpful sometimes, because it does hint there is a possibility, however slim, that you may find it again."
At the heart of the story is a mystery related to Florence’s and Elsie's past. It is not very difficult to guess ( I had gathered more or less what it was from the beginning) and in places, it rather depends a little too much on coincidence. However, the charm in Joanna Cannon’s books is the protagonists finally facing their own guilt and understanding their own pasts and presents for what they truly are.
Recommended for those who loved Joanna’s first novel [b:The Trouble with Goats and Sheep|27276280|The Trouble with Goats and Sheep|Joanna Cannon|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1468174334s/27276280.jpg|46094423] and for those who like an older protagonist solving a mystery of her own past such as in [b:Elizabeth Is Missing|18635113|Elizabeth Is Missing|Emma Healey|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388883559s/18635113.jpg|24946905]