Plain Seeing: A Novel

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Summary: Like a good photograph....it stays with you...
Review:

I read a lot of books....I usually start one with great expectations and turn the final page with the resignation of good time, ill-spent.

"Plain Seeing," however, is quite different. I truly savored each page and was sorry when the story was over.

I'll read more Scofield. She's my kind of writer....she tells a compelling story, fills it with an odd-ball mix of characters, and lets the chips fall where they may. In other words, she puts real life into her work.

Read this book!

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Summary: Probably Sandra Scofield's best book to date.
Review: I was riveted by this book. The depths of the characters, the seamless storytelling and the immense human quality is gripping. The intristices between women, between mother and daughter is eloquent. Read this book, it's excellent.

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Summary: A good read
Review: This book is well written and compelling. It's actually two stories about the lives of two women--a mother and a daughter--the first part ends when the daughter is born, the second begins several years after the mother has died, so we never see the mother and daughter on the "stage" together.

Scofield writes beautifully and tells a good story. Part one was a bit slow at times--in the beginning especially--and because it takes place in the first half of the 20th century, I felt at times it veered just a touch into cliche, ie, our idea of history, versus what it was really like back then. Part two is excellent and gripping. You really feel for this woman as she becomes an adult and mother herself, who is utterly haunted by the loss of her own mother, and because of this not much of a mother to her own daughter and a pretty awful wife to her seemingly decent husband. Scofield seems more comfortable writing about this character because she lives in Scofield's own times. I recommend this book!