Daughters of Messene, by Maggie Rainey-Smith
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Daughters of Messene, by Maggie Rainey-Smith
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Artemis has the name of a goddess, but she has trouble living up to it. Instead she usually just runs away. She’s running now … away from the married man she’s been seeing, and the Greek community in New Zealand who think they know what’s best, and into the arms of family in the Peloponnese that she’s never met. It’s 2007. She carries her mother’s ashes and an iPod with recordings, which bit by bit tell the shocking story of what happened to Artemis’ grandmother during the Greek Civil War, over half a century earlier. Daughters of Messene is a story of a family of women – those who stayed in that broken but beautiful country, one who went to the ends of the earth to escape what she’d seen, and another who returned not knowing what it was she was looking for. A powerful third novel by Maggie Rainey-Smith.
Daughters of Messene, by Maggie Rainey-Smith- Amazon Sales Rank: #1060064 in eBooks
- Published on: 2016-02-12
- Released on: 2016-02-12
- Format: Kindle eBook
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Right book right time By TANIA KELLY ROXBOROGH Note: At the end of this review is a disclaimer.I took this book on a journey (to see my mother) not knowing that it would resonate so sharply and the story would challenge me in real time as I navigated that tricky mother-daughter dance so cleverly written (and with a light hand) in the account of Artemis as she meets her Greek family (those alive and those who have died but whose voice still demanded to be heard). I knew almost nothing of Greece, of Crete, of the history (only that my father-in-law fought on Crete during WW2 and what I had gleaned from television programmes and movies). Rainey-Smith doesn't make assumptions of what the reader may or may not know; she doesn't bog the narrative in too much history but provides lots and lots of 'tasters'. I plan to go and brush up on my ancient Greece history and find out about the Greek civil war. As a result of these wee snippets dropped gently into the story.I like a novel which teaches me about the human condition and the history and geography of a place and time as well as one which makes me smile or makes me sad. In other words: engages my head and my heart. The Daughters of Messene did this for me with the bonus of brilliant writing. I LOVE great writing. Here are two of my favourite phrases:'Just like that, they were dividing her mother up, measuring her out with coffee spoons for distribution between two hemispheres.'; and,'the sky clotted with men and their parachutes.'Highly recommended.Disclaimer: I first 'met' Maggie Rainey-Smith through one of her poems which I 'stumbled upon' when reading another's blog. I 'met' her again by reading her reviews on Graham Beattie's blog (...). I loved her reviews; read first one, then another of her recommended books and so decided I trusted her opinion. I sought out more of 'online Maggie': her own blog: (...)Then, as is often the way nowadays with blogs and Facebook, we became 'Facebook friends', getting to know one another through shared friends, comments and other writing long before we met in the real world. I say this all to out myself as someone who now counts Maggie as a friend but I believe we found each other first through a mutual love of writing and because I was drawn to her own skill.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Making black eyes By MR MICHAEL J TORRENS I have shared this book from its earliest drafts and so it is unfair, indeed impossible, to make an unbiased review. However if you wish to experience something totally original, something bridging the world but based in personal experience, with words that resonate like kantades, then buy this book.
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