Sarah Lionheart

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I wanted to walk out from the beginning, but I was with friends. It was cringeworthy. Only Candice Bergman seemed to have a realistic face. The others were horribly disfigured by plastic surgery. It was actually painful to watch Jane Fonda, walking around almost skeletal. The scenery and views of Rome and Venice and Italy are just gorgeous, shame about the plot and the script and the bad acting. Don’t go and see it. It’s hours of your life wasted. There was something quite sick about this film Assumptions of what peoples hopes dreams and ambitions are once they pass 70. Save me from this shallowness and vanity. I think it’s probably the worst movie I’ve ever watched

Tough grim subject matter, but no doubt still happening so important to know about. Well written but the coercive control, emotional and physical abuse ( e.g. hunger and neglect) make it a hard read to swallow. Yes, I got that little Shuggie loved his mum because there was no one else there for him but one neighbour, one bus driver, one shopkeeper, one teacher could have stepped in. The writing enabled me to see the desperately poor estates and bleak lives in vivid detail and yet it broke my heart over and over that there was no help for her or her boy when they both needed it. I’m still in the hollow empty feeling after finishing the book today. Taking some consolation in the fact that the author has obviously done well so it was a life of triumph over extreme adversity in the end.