The Heel of Achilles


Lu par CJ Plogue

(4.6 stars; 15 reviews)

After a difficult childhood, Lydia Raymond, a lower middle class girl, decides to explore her own individuality and climbs the social ladder. Yet, like everything in life, this has a price. This book tells about her childhood, her quest to find herself, and her relationship with her daughter, Jane. This is a fairytale turned upside down. - Summary by Stav Nisser. (13 hr 21 min)

Chapitres

chapter 01 24:45 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 02 23:54 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 03 21:00 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 04 27:31 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 05 28:35 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 06 29:17 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 07 29:58 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 08 27:08 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 09 24:52 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 10 29:47 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 11 27:23 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 12 26:13 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 13 25:34 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 14 27:20 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 15 27:24 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 16 26:59 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 17 27:09 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 18 27:58 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 19 26:42 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 20 29:33 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 21 27:36 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 22 23:14 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 23 28:47 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 24 28:06 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 25 29:54 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 26 30:21 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 27 27:41 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 28 28:45 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 29 17:20 Lu par CJ Plogue
chapter 30 20:33 Lu par CJ Plogue

Critiques

good reader


(5 stars)

This is an excellently read book. I’m not a fan of Delafield- two books so far, I’ll give it one more try, in which the heroine has all the opportunity to redemption at the end and doesn’t quit get there. I’m not sure what the author’s point is, therefore, with these tales. What are we supposed to learn from them? This is not a book review site, I guess, so that’s that. Excellent reader: perfect tone for our heroine’s tale.

Exquisitely Depressing


(4 stars)

I’m giving this book 4 stars, even though the reading was wonderful. In short, being unfamiliar with Delafield’s works, I wasn’t prepared for such a dismal portrait of such an unsympathetic heroine with such an unsatisfying ending. It was an evocative portrait though, and one to ruminate on for a long time.