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I enjoyed this book on my kindle! I can't remember now what drew me to upload this particular title but I am so glad I did. I couldn't stop reading the story once I started. I would begin reading and be interrupted and I couldn't stop thinking about the characters and the story until I could get back to them. The descriptive writing style is excellent. I love the way the author chose to draw her pictures with her words. I was living with them and I liked them very much. If I could change anything it would be the length of the book. I think it could have been longer. There were some things that I would have loved to see expanded. The relationship with her prisoner male friend and their previous lives could have been explored more in depth and I wanted him to be more talkative about how he knew of their previous life. When I finished reading the book I felt that a major part was missing and the ending felt hurried to me. I was disappointed in the adoption reveal and believe it could have been left out entirely. Julia didn't need to have been adopted as she was flashing back to a previous life before she was born. I really wanted more of that awareness. There were gaps that could have been filled in with more information and a longer read ... and I would've read it. Loved the story. Loved the writing style and I would read more from this author. Oh, and I never connected the girl on the swing - she was just kind of out there for me. She could have been left out completely or expanded upon more. Our family visited the Cotswolds for a week a few years ago so I was delighted to be taken there once more. I enjoyed every minute of this book just wanted more.


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The Girl on the Swing edition by Ali Cooper Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

Though this book insinuated itself onto my - nudging aside a couple of others ahead of it on my to-be-read pile - at a very busy time, it engaged me from the beginning and I could barely put it down. Largely narrative and written in first person present tense, the writing was beautiful, the settings well rendered and the protagonist believable and real.

While there is an underlying theme of reincarnation in the book, it is rather a story of one woman's struggle to find meaning in life again after the tragic loss of her only child. She feels estranged from her husband and very alone in her grief.

Julia is an obstetrician from a middle class background; her ambitious husband from a stiff-upper-lip aristocratic family. She is finally getting ready to return to work when a wrongful death lawsuit is brought against her and she is forced to take an extended leave from her profession. This sends her spiralling down again. She begins to have unsettling visions of a past life. She dares not mention these to her husband and when she does so to her psychologist friend, it is suggested she keep busy doing volunteer work.

Julia decides to try it out and through a twist of fate ends up visiting a prisoner who is in jail for murder. There is an eerie connection with this man and the story begins to take some skillfully written, surprising twists and turns.

There were a few loose threads around minor characters that could have been tidied up, but we come to know and like most of them well enough for the story. Near the ending there is an unexpected twist that stirs Julia out of her fog a bit and helps her face the uncertainty of her future, and a further lovely bittersweet turn that offers promise of resolution and hope.

The Girl on the Swing is literary fiction with a compelling storyline. A most enjoyable read with a touch of suspense and mystery, and one I will remember for a very long time...
This book was recommended to me by someone in my online writer's circle. I snatched it up a while back, mostly to help out a fellow author, and added it to my reading list.

Once I pulled it up on my reader on my iPod, I couldn't put down. I am the kind of reader who looks for clues and forms deductions from those clues. I kept thinking the storyline was transparent, but was pleasantly surprised that I was wrong about how the story would unfold and end.

After finally relaxing, I was able to allow my mind to be led and my imagination to be sparked. I did not feel I was being forced to believe a certain way or possess various traits I don't have. I was allowed to view the story from my own experiences and let my imagination come alive with vivid imagery and well placed tidbits that I never saw coming.

When I read a book, watch a television program or see a movie I need to feel as if it is, had or could happen. If I don't feel this, I stop reading straight away. The Girl On The Swing book drew me in and I felt not only a part of it as a spectator, but I believed it as if it were non-fiction instead of a novel.
A very enjoyable read. I'm disappointed in myself for letting it sit on my kindle for so long before reading. I think the title just wasn't very inviting so I kept putting it off. I finally said enough and decided to give it a try. I'm very glad I did so.

This story probably had the best developed characters that I've seen in a long time. I sincerely cared about Julia and didn't want to put this book down. The story stayed with me even when interrupted with the usual life things. I just wanted to get back to the book and forget everything else.

The writing style was very good, I was particularly impressed on how the backstory (Jamie and the lawsuit) was done. I was always looking forward to the next disclosure. Suspense without it being a "suspense" novel. Also, there are some passages describing grief that were absolutely beautiful that I found myself reading over and over.

I'm a bit on the fence about the reincarnation storyline. It certainly wasn't out in left field but I did find it to be a distraction. IMO, it could have been left out entirely and we still would have had a good story. That said, we would have lost Rose as a character and I liked a lot of what she had to say.

The kindle edition is well edited and formatted.

I'd recommend this book to anyone who enjoys literary fiction and I'm wishing much sucess to the author.

ETC a typo.
I enjoyed this book on my kindle! I can't remember now what drew me to upload this particular title but I am so glad I did. I couldn't stop reading the story once I started. I would begin reading and be interrupted and I couldn't stop thinking about the characters and the story until I could get back to them. The descriptive writing style is excellent. I love the way the author chose to draw her pictures with her words. I was living with them and I liked them very much. If I could change anything it would be the length of the book. I think it could have been longer. There were some things that I would have loved to see expanded. The relationship with her prisoner male friend and their previous lives could have been explored more in depth and I wanted him to be more talkative about how he knew of their previous life. When I finished reading the book I felt that a major part was missing and the ending felt hurried to me. I was disappointed in the adoption reveal and believe it could have been left out entirely. Julia didn't need to have been adopted as she was flashing back to a previous life before she was born. I really wanted more of that awareness. There were gaps that could have been filled in with more information and a longer read ... and I would've read it. Loved the story. Loved the writing style and I would read more from this author. Oh, and I never connected the girl on the swing - she was just kind of out there for me. She could have been left out completely or expanded upon more. Our family visited the Cotswolds for a week a few years ago so I was delighted to be taken there once more. I enjoyed every minute of this book just wanted more.