Sofia Lundberg’s The Red Address Book is a charming little story of a ninety-six-year-old woman, Doris, who has written down all of her memories of people she has known in her life. Doris did not have an easy life. She received a little red address book from her father at Christmas when she was a young girl. She uses the names in the address book to reveal the memories of her life to tell her life story for her great-niece Jenny.
Doris suffers so many painful hardships throughout her life. The reader often wonders how she is able to keep going. She does. Jenny travels to be with Doris at the end. As Jenny reads through the memories Doris has written, Jenny learns about herself too. And the ending is so sweet. I found myself weeping happy, sad tears.
Thank you to Bookish First and Thorndike for an ARC of this book.
Doris suffers so many painful hardships throughout her life. The reader often wonders how she is able to keep going. She does. Jenny travels to be with Doris at the end. As Jenny reads through the memories Doris has written, Jenny learns about herself too. And the ending is so sweet. I found myself weeping happy, sad tears.
Thank you to Bookish First and Thorndike for an ARC of this book.