The Weird Sisters

Eleanor Brown

Jan 2011 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

The beloved New York Times bestseller from acclaimed author Eleanor Brown about three sisters who love each other, but just don't happen to like each other very much.

Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the eccentric Andreas family. Here, books are a passion (there is no problem a library card can't solve) and TV is something other people watch. Their father—a professor of Shakespeare who speaks almost exclusively in verse—named them after the Bard's heroines. It's a lot to live up to.

The sisters each have a hard time communicating with their parents and their lovers, but especially with one another. What can the shy homebody eldest sister, the fast-living middle child, and the bohemian youngest sibling have in common? Only that none has found life to be what was expected; and now, faced with their parents' frailty and their own personal disappointments, not even a book can solve what ails them...

Ratings and reviews

1/3 of the way in.all these "reviewers on Tmthe back of the book must of been stoned/drunk or no clue what funny is.Its not funny it doesn't elicit chuckles and no bloody way is it "hilarious". Just boring droning on and on.and the switch bet 1st n 3rd is annoying...I refuse to continue readin.I REALLY got to quit reading female "writers" ..all suk

A book with a lot of recent hype, which always makes me a little nervous because I want the book to really earn the hype that it receives. So onward to the review - purely wonderful read. I hate to say that I had a hard time finding a chunk of time to read it, but page by page I fell in love with this read. A story of three sisters that come home to regroup and get their lives on different tracks. Close to home, this story made me think about my return to "home" or where my parents currently live, with my boyfriend to take jobs and regroup. My little sister also came back to where my parents live to regroup and take her life down a different path. Fortunately, our own issues brought us close to our parents, unlike the book where the girls use their mother's illness as the reason to return home. My one small minor issue that I was able to overcome was the frequency of quotes from Shakespeare. Not being a Shakespeare fan, I probably would have gotten into the read quicker because I felt as though there were quite a few more at the beginning in comparison to the end. They did fit in the story, so if you knew the story line, it was easy to interpret the quotes. I quickly became attached to each of the three sisters in very different ways. Their story arcs were unique, but interconnected and the flashbacks to previous years helped guide the story along. The book centered around the three girls, but the parents and other minor characters were very much a part of bringing this story to life. I am physically passing this book onto mom and would recommend those who have a sister or two to pick this one up.

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. The characters were really well-developed characters who were likable despite their flaws. It was well-written with a great voice.

About the author

Eleanor Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Any Other Family, The Weird Sisters and The Light of Paris, and the editor of the anthology A Paris All Your Own. She lives with her family in Colorado.