Customer Reviews
A disappointment - By: Ms. K. Marsh, 14 Oct 2008 
Synopsis from Amazon:
In this first novel, Dr Henry (Henrietta) Metcalfe falls for a hitch-hiker, Rufus. A psychiatrist & a teacher, both are intent on concealing their true identities. To complicate this comedy of sexual role reversal, Rufus is having an affair with Henry's brother, Hilary, who wants to be a father.
I don't really know what to make of Kansasin August. This is certaintly not the best Gale book I have read. The book seemed disjoined, with random characters flittingin & out of the story. There seemed no definite storyline, we just seemed to follow three character, Hilary, Henrietta & Rufus through odd events which distantly relate the characters to each other. I didn't like the ending, which I honestly was begging to come. I don't feel the story is ended & I'm left feeling completely unsatisfied. All revelations could have come a lot earlierin the story. That I think would have made the book improve vastly. It was not a long book, 158 pages, but one I did consider putting down a few times. I didn't really connect with the characters, there was nothing about any of them that I could relate too. I'm left disappointed really.
4/10
Wonderful - By: , 21 Nov 2004 
Although this book is short (which is perhaps the only let down of the whole thing) It was a wonderful book to read, a fantastic story line filled with warmth & story lines that you wouldn't have thought were coming. It focusses on two siblings who are both adults & through the story brings out there wants & desires.
