The book doubtless pushes all the right buttons for its target audience, and there’s no arguing with that. There is nothing particularly wrong with the novel, but even allowing for the limitations of genre (though the term ‘chick-lit’ might be much overused and have the whiff of condescension, if not sexism, about it, it’s hard to know how else to categorise this book), it lacks any kind of narrative or linguistic spark, anything to breathe real life into the familiar material. The minor characters similarly pass muster. Bruce Springsteen, in the Colts Neck, N.J., farmhouse where, in 1982, he recorded the songs for his album 'Nebraska.' CBS News. The central characters are, in the main, credibly drawn, though Lou comes across sometimes as too nice to be true. A stark reminder that, sometimes, one moment is all it takes, it also reminds us that somehow, and despite everything, life can and does go on. Yet it also reminds us that somehow, despite it all, life can and does go on. Telling the story of the week following that fateful train journey, 'One Moment, One Morning' is a stunning novel about love and loss, about family and - above all - friendship. A stark reminder that, sometimes, one moment is all it takes to shatter everything. A stark reminder that, sometimes, one moment is all it takes. She witnesses Simon’s demise and through this comes to know Anna.Īt the heart of the book is an examination of the friendship between the three women, and how a single event reverberates, leading to radical changes in the lives of all three. Telling the story of the week following that fateful train journey, One Moment, One Morning is a stunning novel about love and loss, about family and above all friendship. Telling the story of the week following a fateful train journey, One Moment, One Morning by Sarah Rayner is a stunning novel about love and loss, about family and above all friendship. She is gay and wonders if she should come out to more of the people close to her, particularly her manipulative mother, and her colleagues at the school.

Lou counsels children at a school for troubled teens and pre-teens.

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