La Chiave dei Ricordi,
The Key by Kathryn Hughes is another wonderful book by the author of The Letter. I decided to read this book for giving some space also to the piles of books I bought during the year but that are procrastinated because they are not in the list of books that must be reviewed.
It was a wonderful and hard reading at the same time, of course because psychiatric hospitals as the one where interacted the females protagonists of this story, mostly a pink story of three strong women, where men are just a frame, sometimes not too beauty, in their existence, were hard places without any kind of humanity; for the most diversified reasons. And, an example for all, the nurse who became insensitive to everything and everyone because when still there from just several days, she lost the friend strangled by one of the patient and put under a bed.
The stories told are old and new: the book starts in 2006, when a lady, Sarah, 38 years decides to write a book on Ambergate. In the house of her childhood because left by the husband and because her mother died and she was making good company to her father: a man, who, once had worked at Ambergate. In the sections dedicated to the past, so the 1950s there is at first the story of Ellen a new nurse of the psychiatric hospital that I thought would have been preminent in the book for then seeing that the author bended in the direction of Amy, the main central character of this story. I can't reveal too much for not ruining the surprise.
Written with great competence, the style is captivating and the reader won't be in grade to put down this book anymore once she will start to read it. A good reading for men as well.
A story that will capture you from the first to the last page.
Highly recommended.
Anna Maria Polidori
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