Glass Room

by Kate Holmquist

On the morning of her thirty-seventh birthday, Louisa Maguire takes a long hard look at her life and doesn't much like what she sees. Her mother didn't want her. Her husband is a womanizer. Her best friend keeps trying to seduce her. All she has left are her two beloved children, a hectic career photographing Dublin's beautiful people...and a longing to turn back time and start all over again. When two long-forgotten faces turn up in her studio, Louisa's mind is flooded with memories of her bohemian childhood in New York and of a summer in the Hamptons when she was seventeen. When her first love also arrives in Dublin, Louisa's life is turned upside-down and she is forced to confront the devastating truth about why she has always put security before passion and sex before love.

Mass Market Paperback

First published September 26, 2006

Reviews

[Aidan Matthews · Rating 2 out of 5]

To qoute a famous throw away line often delivered by a street cop "move along, nothing to see here". In this case I felt that there was "nothing to read here" well nothing of any great interest. The plot is weak the story is a bore fest which thanfully is only just over 300 pages . I stuck with the book finished the course, wish I hadn't.

[Maria Inês · Rating 5 out of 5]

Surpreendentemente adorei ler este livro! Tem uma escrita calma que se desenvolve bem e com bons plot twists. Gostei sobretudo da parte do passado da vida de Louisa com a tia Alice nas férias. E uma história apaixonante que romantiza a emancipação da mulher. A leitura foi tão fácil que li o livro super rápido

[Isabel Cristina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Não sendo um livro excelente acaba por se ler muito bem.
A protagonista é a Louisa e a história desenrola-se sobre o seu divórcio, o reencontro com um amor do passado e a descoberta de um novo amor

[Mairi Byatt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Addictive reading, strong powerful women, maybe an ending too neatly tied up, but at times like this we need more happy endings/

[K · Rating 2 out of 5]

I enjoyed the parts about the central character's youth and her bohemian art, but I found some portions (particularly the confrontation scene) quite silly. I never really believed the story.

[Clare · Rating 1 out of 5]

Obvious, stereotyped, awful

[Teresa D · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entertaining.