Review: Great Read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2012
The Unexpected life of Carnegie Lane by Virginia Higgins is a fantastic read and a book you may want to read more than once. It can be read in a day or enjoyed over several days as a nighttime read. There is love, there is drama, there is tragedy, there is real life, and real feelings. This book will make make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will go in unexpected directions and surprise you. In the end you will feel satisfied. You will learn about the music industry, you will learn about the publishing industry. The book takes place in Australia and in England as well as other locations. Each chapter starts with a snippet of music and ends with a sentence that begins the same with only the last part of the sentence being different giving real symmetry to the book. So that still tells you nothing about the book other than how I felt does it?The book is about a family, mostly the mom. It is about how she comes to write a book, how that book comes to be published, how her life changes, changes again, and again, and yet again. It talks about how her relationship with her kids changes with each of the changes in her life. It is about her disappointments and how she learns to live with them and in the end how she triumphs.I give this a 5 star review and highly recommend you check it out.