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The Courtyard |
Author: Marcia Willett
Published: 2007-10-02 |
List price: $13.95
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Customer comments on this selection.
 A treat!
The reviews are true...if you love Binchy and Pilcher, you'll love this book. Truly a treat...didn't want to put it down to go to sleep and couldn't wait to pick it up again. I immediately went on the Internet to learn more about the author and find more books by Marcia Willett. Grab your "cuppa" and settle in for a great read!
The Courtyard
This is another of Marcia Willett's masterpieces. The characters are very real, you either like them or you don't. Just like real life. And many of the characters you have met before ( or will later in other of her fine books). I especially loved how Gussie loved God and wasn't ashamed, I loved how Gillian "grew up" in the book and realized the mistakes she had made and how the lovely Henry forgave her. Wonderful story of love and life!
Lovely, Beautiful Story
The gentle measured pace of all Marcia Willett novels belie her strong, beautiful stories of human nature, and The Courtyard is no exception. Beginning with a chance meeting between a down-on-her-luck elderly woman and a beautiful young wife, the plot moves at a gentle British pace to include all manor of things, from bad marriages to blackmail to young love to severe financial anguish. And yet, all is told as a slow, meandering brook in the lovely country side Willett so beautifully describes.
Nell Woodward, the heroine of the story, is a gentle and sweet wife and mother when we first meet her--but we quickly learn that all is not what it seems, and as her life widens to include an entire "village" of entertwined characters, we see how truly no one IS an island; lives mesh and unmesh together as people move forward in the best ways they know how.
I cannot recommend this charming, beautiful novel highly enough. Do yourself a favor and give it a try.
Long overdue for publication in the United States
The Courtyard is an excellent book, beautifully written, vivid, and evocative. The characters come alive, and so do their lives. The reader ends up caring deeply about them, hoping that all will turn out well. One of the huge advantages to Marcia Willett's books, incidentally, is that characters from her novels tend to show up in subsequent novels, so the reader really has a chance to "see what happens."
It is about time that her books were published, in order, in the United States. The first of her books was First Friends, second is A Friend of the Family (called Thea's Parrot in England), and third is The Courtyard. I look forward to more of the books being issued in the lovely editions shared by the first three!
 A fan of Marcia Willett's writing
Marcia Willett is an author who is frequently compared to Rosamunde Pilcher and Maeve Binchey and I would definitely concur. She is a wonderful storyteller.
This is a another book about families and lives entertwining, joy and sadness, to sum it up in two words dysfunctional lives - something we can all identify with.
This book will warm your heart as her books always do. I loved all the characters. Gussie, Henry, Nell, Gillian, Phoebe, Guy, Gemma. You just have to read it and you will love them too and miss them when you get to the end of the book.
I love the characters and this time there aren't so many I can't keep track of them. The story is intersting and keeps you reading to see how all the different lives will blend and play themselves out in the end. Of course, all the time hoping for a happy ending?
I love her writing and the charming places it takes me, she weaves stories of life and love that we can all understand. I love Marcia Willett and was so happy that Gussie had faith in God and talked to him, it was so refreshing in the world we live in today.. I meant to give it 5 stars.
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