Review: CONFUSING CHARACTER
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2012
I suppose in a way this is unfair to the author, however I am one of many avid readers that actually has to like the main character in the novel to enjoy it to the full.  In this case I certainly didn't like the main character.  Whenever we lose someone that we love, we automatically feel that guilt complex.  Why didn't I phone more often, visit rather than send a card etc etc.  We lose a baby and straight away blame ourselves, I should have been more careful, shouldn't have lifted that box, and friends that have lost babies through cot deaths, such a tragedy, and always they blame themselves.  However, what we don't do is to turn away from the ones we love and that are suffering with us.  I found Anna's reactions to the tragedy completely selfish.  I know many marriages do fall apart with the death of a child but this is because there wasn't enough feeling between the couple concerned to cope together with their loss.  In this case it didn't make any sense for her to leave her husband as she loved him.  It would have been the last thing she would have done as even with her guilt, she would never have made it worse by hurting him.  I also thought that her reaction to the nurse, was not in keeping with the rest of her character, once she saw how much her Husband had suffered from her behaviour, her reaction would not have been to hit out but to accept she was to blame.  Sorry this character was far too confusing and far too selfish for me to relate to.