Mill on the Floss

Profound, tragic and it's a breeze to read, I recommend it.

I really had to personally mature to appreciate just how brilliant George Eliot or more accurately, Mary Evans, is. 30 years ago at University I read Adam Bede and enjoyed it but bailed on Middlemarch as I would read 20 pages and just go 'huh'- what actually happened?!....Perhaps my concentration and endurance has increased because at the end of 2022 I read Middlemarch and was engrossed, engaged and enthralled...but this summer holiday reading Mill on the Floss was just mind-blowing!!!
A beautifully evocative, powerful book of love, self-identity and satirical humour. Maggie Tulliver is just a bright , your, free-spirited girl whose intelligence, emotion and sensitivity make it difficult for her to 'fit in' and comply with convention. The dialogue at the beginning of the book with the self-righteous aunts made me chuckle incessantly but then things got darker and the question became : Will Maggie get to live her authentic and best life - will we all get to live our best and most authentic lives as our true selves. The answer lies in loving: oneself (to be true to self), , loving humanity (the human dignity in each person) and finding one's true love partner but that is easier said then done and is really the messiness of life. Maggie's story took my breath away by the end and motivated me to strive to live authentically. What a book! What a story!

i like maggie tulliver best.