A review by mholles
The Life of Objects by Susanna Moore

5.0

Beatrice is a young Irish girls who wants more excitement in her life. She naively leaves her village with a woman she barely knows who promises her an exciting life. She ends up living with Felix and Dorothea Metzenburg in Germany on the eve of WWIi. The story is a study of how important objects can be in our life. Felix chooses to move the household and his beautiful things to the country and passes up several chances to flee the country. Beatrice chooses to stay with the family instead of fleeing herself. Beautifully writing . I felt such sadness as Felix kept choosing things over people.