steverino4

"Follow up to her first memoir. She seems to have been born middle aged. The time of life suits her. In her writing as in her music, she has a tone all her own, aching and warmly funny, combining sometimes self-lacerating honesty with sharp observa..." Permalink

"Another outing for the shabby-genteel residents of Sunset House. Translated from the German, but it has a tang as British as Tetley's tea, so 'well done you' to the translator. Similar to Osman's octogenarians with a tad more whimsy and lovely nat..." Permalink

"I grew up in the same neck of the woods - Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario (though somewhat later, and farther south - we were spared blackflies) so her memoir strikes home geographically as well as culturally - I too grew up with Habitant pea soup..." Permalink