Title: Leaving Sophie DeanAuthor: Alexandra Whitaker
Publisher: 5 Spot (March 26, 2012)
Format: Paperback; 352 pages
Genre: Fiction
Source: Paperbackswap
Overview
“There are countless books about divorce, about a man having an affair and leaving his wife. Leaving Sophie Dean is unusual in that the husband is not permitted to walk out on the wife.
The novel explores what would happen if a divorcing couple really did act ‘in the children’s best interests’, instead of just paying lip service to that notion.
Some of the ideas are drawn from a non-fiction work by Sylvette Desmeuzes-Balland, Le Divorce Vécu par les Enfants (Plon, Paris, 1993) in which children of divorced parents explain what they liked and disliked about the way their parents split up.
It struck me that these children’s view of an ideal divorce isn’t impossible to put into practice – all it requires is a degree of maturity and a sincere desire to spare the children unnecessary pain – but we need to know about it. And how better to share that than in a work of fiction?”
“There are countless books about divorce, about a man having an affair and leaving his wife. Leaving Sophie Dean is unusual in that the husband is not permitted to walk out on the wife.
The novel explores what would happen if a divorcing couple really did act ‘in the children’s best interests’, instead of just paying lip service to that notion.
Some of the ideas are drawn from a non-fiction work by Sylvette Desmeuzes-Balland, Le Divorce Vécu par les Enfants (Plon, Paris, 1993) in which children of divorced parents explain what they liked and disliked about the way their parents split up.
It struck me that these children’s view of an ideal divorce isn’t impossible to put into practice – all it requires is a degree of maturity and a sincere desire to spare the children unnecessary pain – but we need to know about it. And how better to share that than in a work of fiction?”
2 comments:
Sounds interesting.
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Sounds like it could be good!
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