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Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() He loves his long term girlfriend Marcella, but I never got the sense that he got her or understood her at all. Honestly, the only reason why we focus so much on the Mitchell family is because Neil's younger cousins ended up taking up a large portion of the novel. Cathy's straight up antagonistic relationship with her mother in law which eventually turned less hostile took up a lot of pages and I wish that we had skipped over it all. It's pretty clear that they are both on two different paths so reading about it for over 500 pages made me want to scream. I honestly did not see what attracted them to one another at all. I was puzzled by Cathy's marriage to her husband Neil Mitchell. Do you want to read endless descriptions of food? How many times they cleaned glasses and plates? How Cathy hates her mother in law? How Tom is jealous of his long term girlfriend? Well if so, this is the book for you. The book follows Cathy and Tom for a whole year while they try to set up their catering business. I went back and read Scarlet Feather because I had previously read about Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather in subsequent books and was curious about these two. I think she could have cut this down by half and it would have improved things by leaps and bounds. I am sorry, but 556 pages was way too long for this extremely slow and boring book. ![]() I did not think it was possible for me to not love a Maeve Binchy book. ![]()
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