Tag Archives: Mrs. Kimble

Haigh does bring the separate stories of the three wives of Ken Kimble together as they are bound together by the two children of his first marriage to Birdie, Charlie and Jody, and there is a full circle structure back … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m well into Ken Kimble’s third wife, Dinah, who babysat his children when they were little. What I object to is the too-convenient running into and ending up married to Kimble situations.  When Ken left his first wife, Birdie, he … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Happily, all paths are crossing and coming around nicely to the third section of the book, and thus, most likely Ken Kimble’s third wife, Dinah.  My problem here seems to be though that all are too conveniently interconnected. Continue reading →

I’m well rid of Birdie, Mrs. Kimble #1, and into Joan, Ken Kimble’s second wife.  Birdie was a pathetic creature, unable to get over her husband’s leaving her with two small children, and finding comfort in wine.  I was sympathetic … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s coming off of Marquez, McCarthy, Steinbeck, Faulkner, but I seem to be getting irked by some small inconsistencies in Haigh’s writing. He came to her silently at night, careful not to wake his parents on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Fifty pages into this novel, and there’s basically a good developing story of the first Mrs. Kimble as it plays out after her husband’s left her.  Birdie is a drinker, trying to get a job and raise her two children … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The novel starts out with a few pages on the death of who I am assuming is Mr. Kimble.  Having read the blurbs, I understand that the story focuses around his three ex-wives, and so when the next chapter opens … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So this is my next selection (don’t know why the image is so fuzzy).  Jennifer Haigh was one of the lecturer/instructors at the Wesleyan conference last summer, and I was quite impressed by her insight.  But I was wowed by … Continue reading →