A magical ocean garden that allows Willa to travel at age 8, 33 and 93 to visit her other selves. A quirky premise with a lot of darker themes.
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A magical ocean garden that allows Willa to travel at age 8, 33 and 93 to visit her other selves. A quirky premise with a lot of darker themes.
#currentlyreading #bindrosbookshelf2021
This book! We meet the troubled but very endearing Willa Waters at age 8, 33 and 93. It wasn't long into reading it when I felt like I just had to know what happened/happens to her. There is a sense of tension and almost dread to find out everything mixed with a fervent hope that Willa is okay. Gosh this was good. ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ An absolutely delightful story about Willa Waters - aged 8, 33 and 93 - and what happens when the 3 Willa's find a way to communicate with each other across time. What would you change if you had the chance?
A stunning debut that made me feel dread, joy, despair and hope.
Oh this frustrated me. Underneath the heavy-handed symbolism and repetition there is a potentially brilliant story but I very nearly didn‘t get through it. Bird tackles really difficult issues like family violence and trauma with a unique magical-realism approach but sadly without the finesse the story needed.
There is an intriguing plot line somewhere in this novel but it‘s getting buried under unnecessary, repetitive symbolism and tricky time jumps. I kinda want to DNF it but I also want to find out what happened to Sebastian.
Just in! This gorgeous book from local #australianauthor. It sounds remarkable, can‘t wait to dive in.
Synopsis: On one impossible day in 1965, eight-year-old Willa received a mysterious box containing a jar of water with the instruction: One ocean: plant in the backyard. So she does - and somehow creates an extraordinary time slip that allows her to visit her future selves.
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