patience required

Amazon reviews have loved this book, As an audiobook, there was something uncomfortably comforting about this story.
I felt the author had genuine life experience of being around 'real' musicians and the workings of the industry were highlighted truthfully. If you like unravelling past history within families, and you want nothing else from a book, this story may be great for you. Narrator did an excellent job of swapping characters and the accents were fair. Slow paced and fairly predictable story, regardless of the unusual circumstances and 'hippy' parenting.

When the generations unravel their stories, the reader is made privy to all plots before the characters are, so it is tedious waiting for them to catch up. Far too much repetition, back tracking and most of the characters rarely know or understand how they feel about the situations. Perhaps more information, insight or history about the isle of white, or even the festivals could have been added as I felt the whole story could have been told in 3 chapters or less. relieved it is a freebie. The village characters were more memorable than some of the main ones but I felt the author had offered some of their own life stories in this book, which made me curious enough to continue. Glad I did in the end, but patience was required.

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