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More Than You Know
Beth Gutcheon
2000 · 269 pages · Contemporary fiction
How it reads
More Than You Know is contemporary fiction (family drama, specifically), and its dominant mood is heartwarming. It's kind, generous and emotionally satisfying. It's a slow burn: character-driven, with a payoff that comes from accumulation rather than twists. It rewards attention and suits unhurried reading more than five-minute gaps.
It's set in a small town setting, in the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are family, love and loss and grief. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is bittersweet: it resolves, but at a price. At 269 pages it's a quick read. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something heartwarming
- you have time to settle in
- you want a complete story in one book
Maybe not if…
- you need something dark or eerie
- you're reading in five-minute gaps
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- contemporary fiction
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- established
- Setting: place
- small town
- Setting: time
- contemporary
- Mood / feeling
- heartwarming
- Pace
- slow burn
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- short
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- modern classic
- Popularity
- moderately known
- Series vs standalone
- standalone
- Themes
- family, love, loss and grief
- Ending style
- bittersweet
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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