Review: A truly amazing story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2011
I do not usually read biographies or non fiction books but there was something compelling about this story that made me want to pick it up.  WhileA Woman's Placeis not fully non fiction it is based on the true story of the authors family.  What an amazing story it is!  In the modern world their stories would still be unusual but in the world of the turn of the century it is extraordinary.What made this story particularly good to me was the way it was written.  Susanne O'Leary writes this book in a way that captures the feeling of the time in which Julia and Sonja lived.  It is easy to be swept up into times past and imagine the lives that they lived.The amazing thing is that the style changes when the story changes between the mother and the daughter.  You can really immerse yourself in the personality of the two women.