Hello all,
Really sorry about this guys but I may need to cry off tonight. With the lack of sleep I may try and get an early night after a nice bath (and it's BD night... not quite so pleasant when your back is so painful...).
I may join at 7pm but if I manage to get to sleep, I'd rather not set an alarm to get up again, I'm sure you girls understand!
I'll try and give my initial thoughts and views though to get you started. I'm about half way through and Pippa has just made the first house-move (trying to be cryptic in case people haven't read that far).
I have to admit that the book took a funny turn for me. This was what I thought when I first started to read the book:-
Pippa was a younger woman married to an older man who was quite rich (due to his successful career). I imagined that she had had a very glamorous life, from a child and I really didn't know where the story was going. But when the book jumped back to her childhood, the whole outlook of the book changed. I just wasn't imagining that family life at all!! I'd expected a typical 2.4 children family life with Mum that stayed at home and Dad that went out and did a normal job. The only inkling that I had that something wasn't quite right, was Pippa's reaction to Grace. Now I think I'm starting to understand why she was the way she was with her.
It's taken me a while to get into the book but I'm really liking it now!
The other shocking bit for me (probably again because of my completely incorrect assumptions of Pippa's upbringing) was the part about visiting the night-club with Trish and Kat. I wasn't expecting that at all!!
Her relationship with her father is strange aswell, almost as if he's scared to get too close to her because of the way her mother will react. And what a bizarre way of domination, the way that Pippa dominates her Mother with literally just a look. Trying to get her Mother to look scared.
All I can say is, what a dysfunctional family unit - one that I never imagined!!
xxxx