Review: My New Family in Sweden
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2010
Swedish for Beginners- a novelI just finished reading Swedish for Beginners and now know why other readers keep asking Ms.Oleary to write a sequel. I feel as if I shared in and became a part of Maud's family in Sweden. Maud shares her journey and her heart in diaglogue and actions both gentle and edgy. She is a grown motherless child; I wanted to befriend and cheer her on. She meets the stranger who was her mother via an old box of photos and letters and then determines to discover all she can about this long-gone but once beautiful woman.  Her search is not to be taken lightly.Fans of Rosamunde Pilcher and Maeve Binch will immediately fall in love with the accessible and engaging prose. I've visited many places, but never Sweden. Now it tops my list of experiences yet to be enjoyed... thanks to Swedish for Beginners.