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Three Things About Elsie

av Joanna Cannon

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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. HTML:The bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a suspenseful and emotionally satisfying novel "infused with warmth and humor" (People) about a lifelong friendship, a devastating secret, and the small acts of kindness that bring people together.
There are three things you should know about Elsie. The first thing is that she's my best friend. The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better. And the third thing...might take a bit more explaining.

Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she thinks about her friend Elsie and wonders if a terrible secret from their past is about to come to light. If the charming new resident is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who died sixty years ago?

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Three Things About Elsie "breathes with suspense, providing along the way piercing, poetic descriptions, countless tiny mysteries, and breathtaking little reveals...a rich portrait of old age and friendship stretched over a fascinating frame" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). This is an "amusing and heartbreaking" (Publishers Weekly) story about forever friends on the twisting path of life who come to understand how the fine threads of humanity connect us all.
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Florence has fallen on the floor of her flat at the Cherry Tree Home for the elderly. As she lies there, she ponders the three things about her best friend Elsie and if the arrival of a new resident that looks exactly like Ronnie. But Ronnie died 40 years ago. Or did he? Subsequent chapters unfurl with what happened last month, mixed in with what happened 40 years ago. Flo is a very unreliable narrator, so you're not sure what is real or not and you're kept guessing about her secret and what really happened with Ronnie all those years ago. ( )
  nancynova | Mar 3, 2024 |
Florence suffers from dementia. After a fall in her room that leaves her unable to move or call for help, she relives in her mind a traumatic event that occurred when was a young woman. The story tells of this event as if the recalling has just recently taken place. A sad but healing recall and how it affects Florence and the people around her. Kirkus: Two friends work at solving a mystery that spiderwebs back in time, not unlike the young girls in Cannon?s debut, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep (2016), but this book is set much later in life at an assisted living facility.As long as she can remember, Florence?s best friend has been Elsie. They both think of Florence?s memory as spotty, though, and Elsie often challenges her to practice calling up facts from their shared past. Strangelyand it is one of many peculiarities permeating the book¥the chapters that Florence narrates exude authority, a good eye for detail, and a crotchety independence that unfortunately puts her on probation with the assistant director at her housing complex. This makes it very bad timing for Ronnie Butler to appear, masquerading as a new resident, because Ronnie Butler was supposed to have drowned in 1953 and, before that, was a violent man who infested and harmed Elsie?s family. Florence is terrified; she believes he has come back for her but can?t explain why. Maddeningly, she communicates less efficiently with authorities than with the reader, and they aren?t inclined to believe her anyway. But what begins as a tale evocative of The Yellow Wallpaper turns into an amateur detective story when Florence confides in the kind and clever General Jack, another resident, and they go hunting down clues to Ronnie's motives and the identity he's stolen. The tone then shifts once more (at the seaside, appropriately) to something bittersweet and pensive, concerned with the significance of any one life as well as the texture of devotion. The novel breathes with suspense, providing along the way piercing, poetic descriptions, countless tiny mysteries, and breathtaking little reveals. Some outcomes seem obvious, but enough is left unsaid to keep readers unsure of anything until the last chapter. Perhaps not quite then, either.A rich portrait of old age and friendship stretched over a fascinating frame.
  bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
Thank heaven for Elsie, Florence Claybourne’s lifelong friend. What would Florence have done without her all these years? What would Florence do without her now, faced with the sinister presence of Gabriel Price? Thank heaven for Elsie.

Mr. Price has just moved into Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly, where Florence and Elsie live, and he is identical to their mortal enemy, a man who died sixty years ago – even the scar at the corner of his mouth is a replica of the scar borne by the despicable Ronnie Butler at the time of his death.

Is Gabriel Price really Ronnie Butler? Is he gaslighting Florence by planting contraband in her flat and accusing her of spying on him, or is Florence showing signs of dementia? Is she spying on Mr. Price and then forgetting that she’s doing it?

More to the point: will Florence ever get rescued from the floor of her flat, from where she tells her story after having fallen?

And what’s the third thing about Elsie?

I listened to the audiobook narrated by Paula Wilcox; she chose to use an accent that was challenging to listen to, with its sing-song quality and rapid-fire delivery. Although I am rating this well-crafted story at four stars, I might have enjoyed the experience more if I’d read the book; as I listened to the closing paragraphs I suspected I had possibly missed some of the subtler nuances of the story.

I expected a mystery – and there is a mystery component. By the time I finished the book, though, I recognized that Three Things About Elsie is about the nature of friendship, memory and self-preservation. ( )
  CatherineB61 | May 31, 2023 |
A long second. What a beautiful concept.

Struggling to rate this one because I really loved it and I teared up when I finished it, but it was also too slow for me to love love. I want to go three, but I'll go four, for all the characters that were so kind and who grew on their own accord throughout.

Of course, it was very obvious from page three Elsie was a fragment of Florence's imagination, but does that make it any less beautiful? ( )
  whakaora | Mar 5, 2023 |
Such a lovely story. We can all learn through Florence how to treat our seniors. Is it dementia? Forgetfulness ? Or is it the truth they speak? Florence teaches us that there is so very much more to a person than they sometimes can articulate. This goes also for supportive characters in this novel like the handyman Simon and the Cherry Tree manager Miss Ambrose. There is a nice dash of mystery too in this novel when a new resident appears from Florences’ past who isn’t who he claims to be. An adventure in Whitby with a disappearing resident sends Florence to the rescue and we love her even more. At the heart of this novel also, is Florence’s relationship with her best friend Elsie who she talks to throughout the novel.
I didn’t want this novel to end especially when we know the first 2 things about Elsie but what is the third???? ( )
  Smits | Jan 25, 2023 |
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In most novels, pre-empting a central plot twist spoils the reading experience, but here it is Cannon’s meticulously crafted characters who drive the story.

Cannon’s previous career as an NHS psychiatrist infuses her writing. She treats her characters with immense care and compassion, inviting the reader not merely to be interested in them but to show them concern and empathy...Throughout Cannon’s writing, there is an intrinsic understanding of the quiet pain that accompanies loneliness.... Compassionate, thoughtful and tender, it is a novel exploring the pain of nostalgia and personal truths so painful we hide them even from ourselves. As Florence says at one point: “Everyone has words they keep to themselves. It’s what you do with your secret that really matters. Do you drag it behind you forever, like a difficult suitcase, or do you find someone to tell?
 
Like M Scott Peck’s A Bed by the Window, Cannon’s second novel involves a mystery plot of crime and redemption. And like Peck, Cannon is a practising doctor, and knows what she is talking about...I have reservations about the construction of this novel: it can be clunky, slow-paced, sententious and sentimental...Florence’s character is lovely: sweet, sharp and argumentative, she brims with quips and retorts...What is the “third thing about Elsie” advertised by the title? The reader intuits the answer, which, when it surfaces in the final chapter, is powerful and profound.
 
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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. HTML:The bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a suspenseful and emotionally satisfying novel "infused with warmth and humor" (People) about a lifelong friendship, a devastating secret, and the small acts of kindness that bring people together.
There are three things you should know about Elsie. The first thing is that she's my best friend. The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better. And the third thing...might take a bit more explaining.

Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she thinks about her friend Elsie and wonders if a terrible secret from their past is about to come to light. If the charming new resident is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who died sixty years ago?

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Three Things About Elsie "breathes with suspense, providing along the way piercing, poetic descriptions, countless tiny mysteries, and breathtaking little reveals...a rich portrait of old age and friendship stretched over a fascinating frame" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). This is an "amusing and heartbreaking" (Publishers Weekly) story about forever friends on the twisting path of life who come to understand how the fine threads of humanity connect us all.

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