Absolutely marvellous

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	• The Divide Nicholas Evans Putnam Pub Group, 2005 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 57 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

great scenery.....

Nicholas Evans has the wonderful ability to truely give charecter to landscape. In all of his books my favorite characters have been land in which the story takes place in and this one was no different.

I enjoyed Abby's story and felt that she had the most depth of all the the characters. I also appreciated that Evans brought to light some of the environmental damage that is being done in some of our most beautiful areas, and how the land owners are most of the time completely unable to stop it from happening.
On the other hand, I did not care in the least about the parents divorce and found the mother to be extemely unlikeable. Romance is not my cup of tea but always find Nicholas Evans to be a good read.

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Very Good!

This is one of the best books i've ever read. I couldn't put it down.

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Rich, nourishing read

After a bit of a slow start (too much detail about the initial discovery, I think), this one is a real page-turner, and I could not put it down. I love Evans' descriptive style and his plot is rich and well-developed.

I was particularly impressed by how he got into Sarah's head in terms of her reaction to the breakup of her marriage. I've been through a similar experience, and trust me, her rage and hurt is right on the money. I was also impressed by the development of the Abbie storyline.

Wonderful book, albeit somewhat depressing. I like that he didn't completely sell out with a happy ending - rather, he left the reader with the sense that these people will eventually be all right.

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Good Story

This was a good story but I thought it was too lengthy in the middle of the book with ongoing issues that I wasn't too interested in such as the environmental issues, etc. The beginning was good but it kind of fizzled out for me in the middle and end. Not a bad book though.

Absolutely marvellous

How good is this novel? I absolutely loved it, devoured every page in fact. Evans writes extraordinarily well about emotions, conflict and redemption, particularly from a female point of view. It is something that has always blown me away about his books. His female characterisations are always superb and I can totally relate to them, something that puts his books several notches above many by his contemporaries.

The novel's plotline of the disintegrating marriage of wealthy Long Island couple Sarah and Ben Cooper, the fallout from their separation and its disastrous effect on their young adult daughter, Abbie, is fascinating. Fuelled partly by her searing anger at her father for leaving their family and as an in-yer-face rebellion against him, Abbie falls under the spell of the sinister Rolf, a member of the Environmental Liberation Front, a domestic eco-terrorist group. Amongst other activities, Rolf torches SUV dealerships as a protest against "bourgeois capitalist pigs". Abbie, awed by the older man and angry at the world in general, starts to accompany Rolf on his torching missions. When one in Denver goes disastrously wrong, resulting in the death of a young man, Abbie and Rolf have to go on the run as they are wanted for murder. The resulting impact on her family and friends is devastating and Evans writes about this beautifully and in a way that is so sympathetic that I felt their pain with them. Interestingly, the story is told in reverse, a plot device that is remarkably effective.

I highly recommend "The Divide" to one and all and I have awarded it five stars. The novel is a triumph, and I look forward to more novels from this gifted writer.

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