Every Last One – Anna
Quindlen – first published in the UK in 2010
The
book begins as a story about an unremarkable but reasonably well off family
with a teenage daughter who has had an eating disorder and a son who has mental
health issues. Then something shocking
and unexpected happens and the whole focus of the book shifts to the mother –
Mary Beth – and is then about how she copes with the aftermath. The New York Times described the book as
spellbinding. I wouldn’t go that far
but it is compelling. 7/10
1st July 2012
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