Joanne's Reviews > A Country Road, A Tree

The premise of this book was so promising that I was quite disappointed to find the narrative bored me. The author never made the characters come alive enough to interest me. Beckett and Suzanne were so wooden, so barely sketched out, that they had no hold on my imagination at all. I persevered in finishing it, but only because I find Samuel Beckett an interesting historical figure and have read some of his works.
I couldn't stop myself from comparing parts of this supposedly true story with the fictional tale in Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale. Her description of the long refugee flight out of Paris was so much more vivid than the description of the same trek as depicted in this book.
I give the book a scant 3 stars.