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On Green Dolphin Street
On Green Dolphin Street | Sebastian Faulks
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Focusing on a richly significant time in our recent past, Sebastian Faulks, the bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray, has written his first novel set in America. The year is 1960a fascinating moment of transition in our country, when the comfortable Eisenhower years were drawing to a close and the ruthlessly competitive Nixon/Kennedy presidential campaign signaled the beginning of a starkly different decade. Mary van der Linden has recently moved from London to Washington, D.C., with her two children and her loving, admired husband, Charlie, who is posted to the British Embassy. Nearly forty, Mary has spent a lifetime as a loyal daughter, wife and mother. But in this year of so much change, she feels compelled to break away from her familiar world and is drawn to the freedom of New York City, which is effervescent with parties, jazz, three- martini lunches, girls in their summer dresses and men in their Sinatra hats and big ties. Greenwich Village is still charmingly bohemian, and Miles Daviss hit tune On Green Dolphin Street is playing everywhere. Mary finds a hotel room in New York and then finds a lover, while back in Washington her husband drinks to forget the demands of his job, the absence of his wife and the Cold War paranoia that has overtaken the capital. Faulks breaks new ground with this novel: It is a love story, not a war story, and it is set in America rather than France. Yet readers of his two previous bestselling novels will recognize the close focus of the historical setting, the unforgettable characters and the gathering emotional power of the narrative. On Green Dolphin Street is a dramatic, tremendously moving novel that is certain to extend the American audience for this prodigiously talented authors work.
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LapReader
On Green Dolphin Street | Sebastian Faulks
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From the Little Free Library in Dubbo that I visited in the school holidays.

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JillR
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I really enjoyed this story of a marriage and a love affair. Set mainly in Washington and New York during the Cold War and the election campaigns of Kennedy and Nixon the background is intriguing yet the book is really about the love story. What was interesting was there were no judgements made as to the characters‘ decisions and no definitive end point or defined consequences to their choices. Great writing and great characters.

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MayJasper
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I loved it. I am pleased I loved it as he is one of my favourite authors. I haven't found a book of his that I haven't loved.
This one is set in the USA in 1959 cold war era. A story of love in a time and places of danger for the protagonists.
I am so sad to have finished it.

Cathythoughts Great review! I see I have it stacked already ♥️👍🏻 5y
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MayJasper
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I am really enjoying this book. Okay he is one of my favourite authors so I suppose it was to be expected 😀 I love all the emotional twists and turns.

Cathythoughts Sounds good 6y
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MayJasper
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#SeasonsGreetings prompt 11: #GreenBooks
@vkois88 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I am looking forward to getting round to reading On Green Dolphin Street one day. Especially as I am a big fan of Sebastian Faulks❣️

vkois88 That's a beautiful copy of Anne of Green Gables 6y
Andrew65 Pretty! 6y
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DeborahSmall
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#17rainbowbooks #greenintitleorauthor going by GR these are books I've read with 'green' in title 💚📚

DeborahSmall @KarenUK has just reminded me of all the Graham Greene I've read 💚💚 8y
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elliemcc11
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January's reads. Loved On Green Dolphin Street, really liked Up at the Village and Charlotte Gray, and thought The Woman in Cabin 10 was average. Half way through Exposure.

elliemcc11 Up at the Villa! 8y
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elliemcc11
On Green Dolphin Street | Sebastian Faulks

Until she had had children of her own she had not been able to contemplate the death of either of her parents; when the subject had arisen, in conversation or in her own imagining, she had said only: I just don't know what I'd do