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Title: Borderline

Author: Janette Turner Hospital

Narrator: Stewart Morritt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-12

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A meat truck carrying illegal immigrants is intercepted at the Canadian-American border, but an unconscious woman is inadvertently left inside the truck. Two strangers waiting in separate cars impulsively smuggle her across the border - and their lives are changed irrevocably. In this complex and compelling novel, Felicity and Gus cross and re-cross borders - between countries, between past and present, and between reality and illusion - as they struggle to come to terms with borderlines of their own.

Critic Reviews:

This book is brilliant in its several meanings: sparkling, intelligent, distinguished ... Hospital is in complete and wondrous control of her material. Borderline is a book to be urged on one's friends. (San Fransisco Chronicle)

Members Reviews:

Not recommended.

I never cared about the characters. The book never grabbed my interest. I struggled to finish it. I got this book because of a good review in the NY Times.

I loved this book. Haunting and engrossing.

This was the first Turner Hospital Book I read, and it had me from the first page. The delightful style of writing as well as the almost detective style plot both kept me reading until it was done. In the middle of my exam period at uni, I could do nothing else!

Turner Hospital's repetitive theme of displacement is found again here in the character of Felicity and her constant movement from childhood onward. Very topical in today's "global village" in which many of us find ourselves not sure where we belong, after living in and becoming attached to many different places, this theme is accessible but not laboured.

Highly recommended.

Ambitious, sometimes successful

While not very long, this is a pretty ambitious book. It deals with political morality and individual responsibility. It speaks in the voice of several characters, and uses such literary devices as a narrator who stops to talk to the reader, acknowledges bias, and speculates on the truth of his story. At times it succeeds, but overall it is not nearly so good as it might be. The plot reminds me of an episode of X-files, and I am not a big fan: sinister but not really credible forces at work. The one character Turner is really successful with is a well meaning, lower middle class insurance agent given to adultery and alchoholism.

Magical, scary, disturbing, haunting.

READ SLOW - you'll think you'll never get into this one but after 50 pages or so you'll find yourself swept along. Hard to describe the feelings this story evokes - like you've seen something you were not supposed to and you've been changed. This author has tremendous talent