Angela M 's Reviews > The Soul of a Woman

I’ve read quite a few of Isabel Allende’s novels and while I haven’t loved them all equally, I’m a big fan, so it was impossible to pass this up after reading Diane S’s and Elyse’s reviews. Rather than a straight narrative memoir, it was as if she was speaking about what crossed her mind, moving back and forth between different times in her life. It’s a wonderful self reflection, a tribute to some women in her life, a focus on her feminist views and with all of this, she eloquently imparts the wisdom of her years . It’s a little about her early life, her mother’s experience and her own when her father left. From an early age, this seemed to shape her views on the role of women, her fervor for feminism, passion for justice and equality . It’s a little about her writing and what it was like being a woman writer in the male dominated literary world . Allende writes about her love of her children, her love life describing her three marriages and spends a good bit of time reflecting on aging, discussing violence against women around the world and the work of her foundation to help women. This book was a joy to read and I highly recommend it, especially to the young women of the world who will gain much from the passion and intelligence of Isabel Allende.


I received an advanced copy of this book from Random House through NetGalley.