just perfect  

Douglas Stuart: John of John 

It was just perfect.

Just perfect.

I loved everything about this book.

I had to sleep overnight after reading it so I can really feel my feelings after reading it, experiencing it. 

Still, it is just perfect.

Douglas Stuart keeps getting better by book and this, his latest, with themes that I enjoy the most - broken families, the relations between parents and children, the religion / church, Bible / God, women, settings, buildings, the nature, that come alive in the text… the list is long but

it all got cevered in this book and it was not a mess but

a beautiful very powerful deep down to the core story 

that "haunted" me for the last month.

I have been reading this for the whole of the month, little by little, chapter by chapter (even though in the end I could not resist and I read tha last 100 pages by one sitting since it was physically and mentally impossibble not to find out how the story goes).

I also loved the fact that it did not have a sugarcoated ending but a real one, some happiness, some torture, some life.

I highly recommend this book to everyone. 

The whole 400 pages were needed to tell the story (and after slept overnight I understand why the mother did not get her say in the story - the women in that community, in that church, in that particular houselhold of this beautifu yet very tortured (and way too violent) John, women would have not received such privaleges).

Also, as a footnote, loved how the setting, the moors the lambs the vowing the clothh the yarn the colours the making of the art = the tartan came alive, to be as one of the characters.

Yes, I loved it all.

(About the plot you can read elswhere).