A Map of Everything by Elizabeth Earley
Available: (RRP from $9.99 digital download) from Jaded Ibis Productions
Rating:
A
Map of Everything is literally what it says on the tin (or the book cover in
this case), it is a map (or a novel) about everything: love, tragedy, despair,
complex family, and personal, relationships and personal transformation. The
story follows a family through
Rating:
A
Map of Everything is literally what it says on the tin (or the book cover in
this case), it is a map (or a novel) about everything: love, tragedy, despair,
complex family, and personal, relationships and personal transformation. The
story follows a family through
We
are told this story by Anne, the youngest child, the “fifth-born” who is hit
hard by what has happened to her sister June. Anne was just a young girl when
the accident happened & through this story we see how she coped as a young
child, how it affected her when she hit her teens and on into adulthood. Anne
also tells us, through stories & anecdotes, how the rest of her family were
affected by and coped with what happened.
By
the end of the novel I felt like I knew Anne very well, I’d watched her grow
from a young troublesome teenager into a very well-rounded woman. At times I
actually felt like I was living Anne’s life right alongside her: I felt her
pain, her sadness, her joy.
An
exceptionally well written novel that I would recommend to anyone. Elizabeth
Earley draws us into the story and makes us feel everything the characters
are feeling, near the end of the book we are rooting for this family we know so
well, we want everything to work out because god-knows they deserve it.
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