Amanda's House

By Lynn Buck

Amanda Carmichael, age seventy-four and recently widowed, has offered her home as a safe house for battered women and children until space is available in the Oak Haven Shelter. This impulsive action... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140104476X
• ISBN13: 9781401044763
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Amanda's House Well Written

Amanda's House was well written on a lot of different levels. Ms. Buck captures the issues with working with battered wives and the lack of self esteem and cycle they find themselves in. She captured the ambiguous feelings that victimized children experience as well. I am a school psychologist and worked on a domestic violence hotline for years and I can verify that Ms Buck knows her stuff. I liked the fact that the book also dealt with how people are treated when they have reach a certain age. Ms. Buck is of that certain age (75) thus had the experience to write about it. I believe this is her first novel which gives us all hope that we can never start too late. Amanda's House's has a well thought out plot. The main characters seem real. I am usually a mystery reader so I would have liked maybe some extra intrigue. Maybe the next book