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title: "The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.: A Novel Paperback – March 12, 2013"
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# The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.: A Novel Paperback – March 12, 2013

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    To me endings are everything
  

*by P***E on Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2020*

I am a 76 year old man and only child.  I recently lost my wife , the love of my life, of 50 years.  We were best friends since she was 13. 57 years of friendship, 54 as lovers.  She died of a terminal cancer.  We thought she beat it for the first 6 months, but then we found out she didn’t. It took her 2-1/2 years to die.She pretended everything was OK as we went to Chemo sessions and conducted our normal lives.  Our kids are grown but our grandkids (twin boys) were only 7 when she was diagnosed.  She loved them with all her heart and made time to spend with them every week.We traveled extensively our whole lives together.  When the boys were young, they came with us. When they got older they came too, except with friends, girl friends or all together.She pretended all was well, until the last 11 days in the hospital, where we lived while waiting for her to leave us.  We had many intense conversation in that 11 days. Conversations we didn’t have in the previous 2-1/2 years while she was pretending nothing was wrong.  She acted as my companies CFO until 2 days before she had to be hospitalized.She died in my arms as I promised.  I had to tell her it was OK to leave as I gave her our last kiss.  It was a fitting end to a 57 year old love affair.We also lived through 911 and worried about our kids but not obsessively so. We were careful of big cities but were not crazy about it (she might have been, but hid it from me).Our ending was both sad but complete.  I love her still.  This book’s ending was lacking that completeness that I require.Kate should have sit down beside Chris and curled up next to him and told him she loved him and said;  “911 has unhinged me, add Elizabeth’s sudden death and I became too introspective.  Forgive me for being disconnected. I love you more now than I ever have. I appreciate that I have you”.He would take her in is arms and tell her he started smoking again, for the same reasons she became obsessed with their safety.  The final scene should have been them walking toward the house arms around each other.There was too much left unsaid at the end.  It struck too close to home for me.  At the end of a love affair there are too many things left unsaid even after a lifetime of loving each other.  My wife was a very uncomplicated person on the surface.  Very complicated and insightful at her core.  I am sure she never knew how much I appreciated her,  even though I tried all my life to show her in so many ways.This book effected me at a very deep level because of all the thing left unsaid over a 57 year relationship. I would like to think we supported each other as best we could no matter the circumstances.  I believe the main characters in the book would have acted the same way.Great story!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A wonderful novel with a focus on friendship and secrets
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2012*

The author is a friend of mine, but even if she weren't, I would still be very impressed with this accomplished first novel.  The narrator, Kate, is bequeathed a trunk full of diaries written by her friend, Elizabeth.  Elizabeth had died in a plane crash as she was heading to a location in the west for reasons that aren't at first clear.  As Kate reads the journals, she comes to know Elizabeth better, but she also comes to realize how little she knew her when she was alive.  As she pieces together Elizabeth's past and comes to know her innermost thoughts, she wonders what she will do with this knowledge and the journals that holds them.  Should she return them to Elizabeth's husband, though what is in them may cause him pain?  Should she keep private those things Elizabeth herself chose to keep private?  And why was she going out west anyway?  These are the questions that move the plot forward.The plot is of secondary importance, though.  Bernier shows how a relationship is a recipe made up of what each person wants to share about themselves sifted with how each person interprets what the other says and does.  As Kate reads Elizabeth's journals, she is forced to revise her interpretations about Elizabeth, but this revision extends to others in her life.  As she recognizes how little she knew Elizabeth, she has similar realizations about others in her life: friends, co-workers, and even her husband.  As the book progresses, I love how Bernier gives us substantial portions of Elizabeth's journals without Kate's narrative interpretation.  As readers, we get to know Elizabeth better, but we also get to revise our understanding of Kate as we imagine how she must feel as she reads these same words.Bernier has been a journalist her whole career, but her writing here is both more lush and more incisive than that of most journalist-turned-novelists.  She creates beautiful similes which refract and reflect the events she is writing about.  Her writing is at turns funny, then wise, then wistful.  I look forward to reading her next novel, and many more after that.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    OK
  

*by E***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2013*

I had difficulty caring for Kate and Elizabeth. I thought them both selfish in their own way and their marriages were shallow. Imagine not telling your husband you are ill. He would be the first person I would tell.  It is understandable why Kate's husband grew impatient with her obsession of reading the diaries. She spent her entire vacation at the beach reading and barely enjoying her children or the setting.  As for the friendship?  What friendship.?  Here, after I die, read the diares and tell everyone what I did not have the nerve to do.  Great friend?????  I found this tedious and a bit wordy. Could not wait for it to end.

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