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Name: A Beautiful Loan
Rating: 4 (14 reviews)
Author: Mary Costello

A Beautiful Loan

A Novel

by Mary Costello

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Beth B. (New Wilmington, PA)

A Lifetime of Suffocation
A Beautiful Loan might well be the strangest and most depressing book I've ever read. Anna, the main character, suffers from a solitary life that draws her inward so that she is childlike in her consciousness. Self-possessed, yet unable to defend herself when confronted by others --- until, at the end of the book, she meets Christina, a Jungian therapist who enables her to become less haunted.

Margot P. (Mandeville, LA)

Writing yes, plot no
Mary Costello has a great way with words and some passages are really poetic. But…..I grow weary of novels about spineless woman who float through life. This story has been told a few times too many. Perhaps it would appeal more to you younger readers not ones in their sixties.

Gail G. (HERNANDO, FL)

Boring
This book failed to provide a real story or plot. The main character was unlikeable and too much in her own head. She didn't seem to have any sense of herself and spent her life aligning with and completely being the person someone else wanted her to be, and then being unhappy about it. She didn't know how to be a functioning person without someone else setting the parameters. I'm glad it was such a short book because otherwise I wouldn't have finished it. I would not recommend the book.

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