Georgina Danforth Witley has never felt she has led anything but an ordinary life. But here she is on her way to meet the Queen. Born on April 21, 1926, the exact same day as Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, Georgie is one of 99 privileged Commonwealth subjects invited to an 80th-birthday lunch at Buckingham Palace. All she has to do is drive two hours to the airport and board the plane for London. Except that in her excited state, Georgie drives her car off the road, tumbling into a thickly wooded ravine. Thrown from the ...
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Georgina Danforth Witley has never felt she has led anything but an ordinary life. But here she is on her way to meet the Queen. Born on April 21, 1926, the exact same day as Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, Georgie is one of 99 privileged Commonwealth subjects invited to an 80th-birthday lunch at Buckingham Palace. All she has to do is drive two hours to the airport and board the plane for London. Except that in her excited state, Georgie drives her car off the road, tumbling into a thickly wooded ravine. Thrown from the car, injured and unable to move but desperately hopeful that someone will find her, she must rely on her strength, her full store of family memories, her no-nonsense wit and a recitation of the names of the bones in her body--a long-forgotten exercise from childhood that reminds her she is still very much alive.
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The plotline of Remembering the Bones is unique, as well as intriguing. The reader is pulled into wanting to find out whether this women will be rescued and can identify with the her situation and feelings. You want to say to her, 'Hang on, hang on, help is coming.' Itani has woven a beautifully written storyline which smoothly reveals the character's past and her current predicament.
mishv
Jan 12, 2009
When you want to be somewhere else
This book will take you away. Not somewhere particularly pleasant -- the main character, Georgina, is laying in a ravine after driving off the road on the way to see the Queen (who she has always loved and shares a birthday with). but Frances Itani's prose makes change of setting unnecessary. As she lays waiting to be rescued, Georgina ruminates on a well lived life. It is a beautifully written book.
