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Summary: What an Empty Existence
Review: My Dream of You is told in the first person perspective of Kathleen De Burca. A woman of a particular age (fiftyish), she's led an empty, sad existence her entire life. She lives in the same dungeonesque flat in London as she had for the past umpteenth year. She works as a travel writer for the same small publication for as many years, with the same drab coworkers. Single, Kathleen's life consists of a series of brief affairs and one night stands as she searches for something she will never find because she doesn't know what she's looking for. After Jimmy, her best friend and coworker dies suddenly of a heart attack, Kathleen comes to a crossroads in her life. Quitting her ho-hum job, she travels to her homeland of Ireland in hopes of writing a novel on the infamous Talbot divorce which occurred during the Potato Famine. Kathleen begins writing a rather sordid, ficticious account of the doomed union of the Talbots, but eventually has to abandon her imagined take on the scandal as evidence is uncovered which sheds new light of the people involved. I found this a rambling, boring read. Kathleen has so many flash backs, it's hard to stay interested in the present plot.
I had much higher hopes for this book.
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