A review by staceyberkheimer
Random Harvest by James Hilton

4.0

I keep revisiting this because Tim really likes the movie, and you can watch it pretty frequently on TCM. So now I've read it twice, and listened to it once. It's a good story, and well-written, but I feel kind of meh about the central premise -- the intelligent and capable and beautiful woman who's just completely devoted to making the man happy. I know that she's happy with him, too; and probably the way he lifts her out of the working class is supposed to make it ok. A well-written book by a well-intentioned and sensitive person that is just completely and unconsciously full of the idea that the man's perspective is what matters, and the female characters are ... secondary. Other. Only important to the extent that they save or annoy the male characters.