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Title: Who are these depressing people!
Review: I could only manage to read about 1/3 of this thoroughly depressing novel before I gave myself the permission to put it down and stop torturing myself. I felt no compassion for any of the characters except Theresa. The plot is rather contrived (accidental drowning, charges of sexual abuse, arrest - talk about bad karma!) and I felt that I really didn't care what Alice had to say or what happened to her. Some of the other reader reviews were glowing; guess it goes to show you that people do have wildly different tastes when it comes to literature. I will not recommend this book to anyone.
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