The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams ~ Started: 24.01.11 ~ Finished: 30.01.11
Synopsis ~
From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her adored younger sister to return to the crumbling mansion that was once their idyllic childhood home. Vivien has not stepped foot in the house since she left, forty seven years ago; Ginny, the reclusive lepidopterist, has rarely ventured outside it. The remembrance of their youth, of loss, and of old rivalries plays across Ginny's mind. Why is Vivi coming home? Ginny has been selling off the family furniture over the years, gradually shutting off each wing of the house and retreating into the precise routines and isolation that define her days. Only the attic remains untouched. There, collected over several generations, are walls lined with pinned and preserved Bordered Beauties and Rusty Waves, Feathered Footmen and Great Brocades, Purple Cloud, Angle Shades, the Gothic and the Stranger …
'The Behaviour of Moths' tells the story of two sisters, Ginny and Vivien, raised in a mansion in the countryside by their community driven Mother, Maude and their Father, Clive an lepidopterist (a person who specialises in the study of moths), their childhood is idyllic, with Ginny sharing her father's passion for the study of moths. As the girls grow up, Vivien view of her home life changes and she leaves home, leaving Ginny to look after her parents, Vivien's visits are few and far behind over the years until she writes and tells Ginny she is coming home for good, upsetting Ginny's ordered life and wondering why Vivien is coming home.
What I thought of 'The Behaviour of Moths' ~
I am in two minds about 'The Behaviour of Moths', I did not hate it but I did not like it, I was in between because there was certain aspects of the story that are well done but other parts that make little sense (well to me they did not make sense), there is a definite theme running through the book that Ginny may have Aspergers or be autistic but it has been undiagnosed, that did not confuse me, it was the actual story, its very open to interpretation but there is not much to help you reach that interpretation.
Rating ~ 5/10
