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“The dream lover” came into my hands as a recommendation from my local library. I had exhausted the relationship and family sagas of Joanna Trollope and Cathy Kelly (English and Irish). Here the highly experienced USA author is writing superbly, if exhaustingly (showing not just telling) about Bohemian Europeans of a giftedness in the Arts/Music that daunt me. For example Chopin's music thrills me. My wise music teacher gave me a pictorial book of his life.
Who or what was a/the "Dream Lover"? This Jungian term means more than Elvis "dreaming my life away". Learning about this experience through Jungian analysis …more both saved my marriage and helped me understand my own mother and her twin sister. Both had had "dream lovers " due to the deaths in WWll of their American airmen beloveds.
This book made me glad I was not a genius! (less)

This book is insipid. First of all, I don't want to read the perceptions of a 4 year old and secondly, the author didn't even get it right ... 4 year olds are not tiny adults.
And who gets beaten one day by a maid or a mother and is all enamored with that person the next day? There is a wealth of emotion between being beaten and all forgiven that the author chose to not tell us.
And what about the lesbian experience? Why is it just hinted at instead of revealed in real emotions?