![]() ![]() ![]() Although I was disappointed to not have been able to attend the launch of Five Wives, someone told me later that when author David Bergen was interviewing Joan about her book he asked her if she hadn’t been too easy on her characters. Quite to the contrary one of the things that drew me to Five Wives was the sympathy Joan Thomas has for her characters. ![]() One said they wouldn’t even bother to read the book because it questioned the work of missionaries who in the commentators’ opinion “had done so much good for so many people.”Īnother said they wouldn’t read the book either because it was clear from the review it painted Christians in a bad light. What was most interesting to me were some of the comments by online readers of the Globe and Mail review. I spent two days doing virtually nothing else but reading Thomas’ beautifully written and intriguing novel. The Toronto Globe and Mail reviewer gave Five Wives a glowing recommendation. The women and children left behind after their husbands died ![]()
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