The Fence My Father Built
by Linda S. Clare
Paperback
Price: £8.99
Publisher:Abingdon Press from Alban Books
Published:November 2009
ISBN:978-1-426-70073-6
GoodBookStall Review:
This story was too American for me to read and after the first few chapters I put it down, but later I thought ‘I wonder what happens, perhaps I will look further’. Well, of course I read to the end and enjoyed it, as usual learning all sorts of things on the way.
Muri hears that her estranged Father has died just as she is divorcing her unfaithful husband and takes her two children from their city home, to the outback of Oregon where she discovers her part native roots and sets out to sort a legal dispute with a local man. Of course complications arise to put it mildly.
When I had finished I logged on to Google and Wikipedia to look up who the Nez Perce were and discovered among many other things that the Camassia in my garden were the staple food of a number of Native American Indian tribes. It’s amazing what reading a novel can lead you into exploring.
Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew (22/02/10)
This story was too American for me to read and after the first few chapters I put it down, but later I thought ‘I wonder what happens, perhaps I will look further’. Well, of course I read to the end and enjoyed it, as usual learning all sorts of things on the way.
Muri hears that her estranged Father has died just as she is divorcing her unfaithful husband and takes her two children from their city home, to the outback of Oregon where she discovers her part native roots and sets out to sort a legal dispute with a local man. Of course complications arise to put it mildly.
When I had finished I logged on to Google and Wikipedia to look up who the Nez Perce were and discovered among many other things that the Camassia in my garden were the staple food of a number of Native American Indian tribes. It’s amazing what reading a novel can lead you into exploring.
Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew (22/02/10)
