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Slight praise?This book will be memorable for the fact that it will soon be forgotten. It is just so dull, so predictable. The only thing that was in the least surprising was what happened to the body. But why should I spoil the story. Titchmarsh does better working on his garden than writing in it.
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This is the beautifully crafted, gentle story of Charlie Stuart. Bought up in his family home on the Scottish highlands, we follow Charlie on his life path through friendships, loves, losses and intrigue.Alan's superb writing style draws you into the story and the wonderful characters, who I'll admit to thinking I would have no affinity with at the beginning. I dare you not to take an instant dislike to Step-Mother Charlotte, or to feel a lurch in your heart during Charlie's fathers later years....
So a first for me from Alan Titchmarsh. I found it difficult to get into at the start,hence the almost 2 months from starting to finishing. However, when I picked it up again at the weekend I got well and truely stuck in and couldn't put it down. I finished it between Sunday and Monday. The plot well and truely thickens the further in you get, and the big announcement which we are told of in Chapter one is always looming. You change your mind on what that could be several times, however, the end...
I love Alan Titchmarsh books.His style is so gentle, but eloquent and clever, and not contrived in any way. It’s very strange reading or listening to a story written by someone you grew up with watching on tv as a gardener, but I really do enjoy his work, and his style has evolved over time.This book was warm and satisfying, although it had darker moments. I felt the storyline regarding the students could have been concluded a little more fully, and the part running up to the ending was perhaps
I received a copy of this book for free through Goodreads First Reads. Despite a few annoying discrepancies in the uncorrected proof version I received, "Bring Me Home" by Alan Titchmarsh was surprisingly entertaining and easy to read.The characters are likeable - or deliberately not so. While my dislike for certain characters (ok, one in particular) grew during the course of the book, my affection for the others didn't change at all. A shame really, as there certainly seems to be scope for them...
The book started with so much potential and I was instantly hooked but I became slightly confused by the narrative and the speeding of time with some of the characters. It felt that the characters could have been fleshed out a little more and I felt disappointed by the ending. It all felt very rushed. I'm not sure this is his best novel so far as I know that as an author, he is very popular but maybe one of his earlier titles might be more fun.
Charlie Stuart even as a small boy knows that one day he will inherit Castle Sodhail in the Scottish Highlands . He grows to love his home as much as his father always has . Life is good until his father falls in love with a woman most unsuitable to live life here at the castle . She succeeds in making everyone's life a misery and Charlie hates to see the look of misery on his father's face. This was not a match made in heaven .The years roll by and in July 2000 Charlie looks back on his life an...
3.5 is probably a fairer score but Goodreads doesn't do half stars ...This book was ok. The blurb made it sound darker and more melodramatic than it actually was. I thought that Charlie the protagonist, came across as rather naive and maybe a bit too good to be true. The climax of the story felt rather flat, hurried and highly improbable. A bit bland but the Scottish Highlands and some of the characters, like Gordon Mackenzie and Murdo, helped spice it up a little.
I became completely absorbed in this tale of a young man who gains his inheritance when he was just starting out his married life. We get to know Charlie Stuart as we find out a bit about his school days, the acquaintances and friends he met there and how his father's second marriage impacted him. Charlie's uncle and aunt are very helpful as he faces the challenges ahead and the problems that arise.I'm glad my friend recommended this one to me.
