Review - Unfinished Desires - Gail Godwin

From the inside flap:
It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel's, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina. Tildy Stratton, the undisputed queen bee of her class, befriends Chloe Starnes, a new student recently orphaned by the untimely and mysterious death of her mother. Their friendship fills a void for both girls but also sets in motion a chain of events that will profoundly affect the course of many lives, including the girls' young teacher and the school's matriarch, Mother Suzanne Ravenel.

I enjoyed this book until it got to the 'chain of events' - really one night - that changed everything. I thought the the book lost a little something after that. There is a lot going on in the book - it jumps from the present back into the early fifties and has multiple narrators. I thought the most interesting character was Mother Ravenel and enjoyed the book the most when she was narrating. I was not as fond of the Tildy character - she seemed like a spoiled brat most of the time. It could be that that was the point.

Worth a read.

Title: Unfinished Desires
Author: Gail Godwin
Publisher: Random House
Rating: 3.5/5
Source of book: Library