It is one of those completely involving books..I feel sad that I am not longer in that world! how facinating on so many levevls..the history, the characters, Flo, Harriets 1 & 2..so completely original, makes me want to go out and get more Colleen McCollough!
I think the part that I love the most that there was no predictablity to anyof it..Harriet didn't end up as a suburban doctors wife with Duncan, nor settling down with Toby..but maintained her own life and her love for Flo was the most powerful thing about her..it was such a powerful book in those ways..
Love the twist and linking Harriet back to her family, and the will under the crystal ball..of course it made the suspense of whether Flo would return to The House or not more worthwhile..
Really the mystic aspects and the predictions, it had the supernatural mixed with the very real (life as a woman in Sydney in the 60s) not being able to be a single parent, no easy access to the pill, inequal pay, the child welfare system being completely anti children etc..a real eye opener, it was fairytale like and also very real..
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