Name: The First Day of Spring
ISBN: 9781529156478

Nancy Tucker

The First Day of Spring

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“I didn't leave you, lovey,' I said into her shoulder. I didn't leave you.”

I love her down to the dark space around her bones, and I want to keep her, to have her with me, to smell her on my clothes. I want to tie tinsel in her hair at Christmas and put a new height mark on the door on her sixth birthday and slip into bed beside her before I go to sleep tonight. I want to carry on being her world.

I have to say, I hated this book the minute I started reading it. Australian historical fiction? Since when? But by the end I was SOBBING myself to sleep. I think the reason I didn't like it so much was because I expected a super disturbing thriller. While it did mess with my head, it was more symbolic and delicate. I don't understand how authors can develop character as intricate and complicated as Chrissie, and while it wasn't my favourite, I can appreciate good writing when I read it. 

The First Day of Spring

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