Evelina | AvalinahsBooks's Reviews > Empty Wardrobes

How I read this: Free ebook copy received through Edelweiss

I was on page 15 of this book, when I took a long deep breath and covered my eyes, so I could deal with the emotion better. I grew up as a single mother’s daughter. The novel is just getting started, and no, my dad didn’t die and my mom wasn’t a traditionalist housewife, and yet… Everything is the same. Somehow.

It just gripped my heart, and I nearly started crying. “No matter what she did […] or what she ended up achieving, she and her daughter remained on the other side of everyone else.” THIS. EXACTLY THIS. All my life.

There’s a glass wall that was put in between me and the world DECADES AGO. And it’s a gap I am still unable to close, at age 33, myself now married and with a good career.

And this book is about that.

Empty Wardrobes paints a woman's life as an endless drama, where all the choices are limited and ultimately undesirable. Read my full review here:
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I thank the publisher for giving me a free copy of the ebook in exchange to my honest review. This has not affected my opinion.

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