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|title=Sisterwives
|author=Rachel Connor
|borrow=Yes
|isbn=978-0946745586
|pages=223
|publisher=Crocus
|date=October 2011
|summary=A closed community which sets its own rules sounds like heaven to some. Except when one husband decides to have himself two wives, he hadn't recokoned on the serious consequences.
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When I first read the title (I hadn't yet read the back cover blurb) I glibly thought that it was about two sisters and their marriages. Wrong. This debut novel by Connor is about two very different women (one is no more than a girl really) who just happen to 'marry' the same man. I use the word marry very loosely indeed. Their community, their rules, their descriptions etc can be rather quirky. Marriages are normally called 'sealings'.'
And as I started to read, I pictured in my mind's eye a sort of Amish-type community. Very intriguing and I wanted to keep reading. There's something that satisfies when you read about a culture or a religion, for example, very different from your own.
The story opens with a young, nervous and naive bride called Amarantha - or Ammie as she's usually called. She's marrying a man who is older but more importantly perhaps, already has a wife and three children.
We all know that very often in love, there are winners and losers. And this statement applies in this novel too. Big time. Rebecca, the first wife: older, hassled somewhat by her busy family life and also teaching at the community school, is not al at all happy that she's soon to share her husband, Tobias. But she has no say in the matter. The community elders, who presumably have much wisdom, have already decided on the matter. But is there an ulterior motive?
For Ammie, well, she feels as if she's won the lottery. She'll have a safe and secure home, a respected place within the community as a married woman and the icing on the cake is that she feels physically attracted to Tobias. ''She never expectred to want him.''
If this book appeals then you might also enjoy [[The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson]]
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