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A review by bookymartha
The Snow Goose and The Small Miracle by Paul Gallico
2.5
The beginning of the book was really beautiful, with vivid descriptions of marshlands and waterfowl, and eventually also a solitary painter living in the lighthouse, painting the birds. I would've been very happy if the book was just that, but then the manic pixie dream child was introduced and it went downhill from there. I just wish that he and the child didn't fall in love, it was so very unnecessary, creepy, and paedophilic. I also hate the trope of someone seeing "past" a disability because of romantic love, when disabled people deserve to be loved as they are without someone "seeing past" their actual self.
As well as that, Gallico was not the best at writing a cockney accent, which makes sense from an American. The end of the book was just Gallico openly fantasising about war and an unsubtly sad ending. I wish it had ended like it started, on the mud flats..
As well as that, Gallico was not the best at writing a cockney accent, which makes sense from an American. The end of the book was just Gallico openly fantasising about war and an unsubtly sad ending. I wish it had ended like it started, on the mud flats..