Nellcott Is My Darling by Golda Fried

One novel that I personally like is Golda Fried’s Nellcott Is My Darling. She is a very amazing writer, who knows how to weave words, sentences, and phrases together to cast a vivid picture of the world she places her main character Alice Charles in.

Nellcott Is My Darling is an amazingly crafted story that takes a reader through a journey of a young adult's milestone of life, with the main character Alice Charles, who is off to McGill College in Montreal from the one she is acculturated to in Toronto.

This shows Alice's true ingenuous beauty and the feeling of being set free for the first time. Alice meets new people like Allegra an arty young lady that seems to have an appeal for hip fresh Montreal guys, engrosses herself in her art projects, and is addicted to coffee.

After Alice gets involved with The Film Society, she seems more comfortable with her new surroundings. Followed by meeting the mysterious Nellcott Ragland, who seems to have a little bit of a dangerous edgy side to him is when Alice's world seems to be swept away and she learns the true reality of the "real world," from the sheltered world she knew and understood before going to school in Montreal.

While one is going along reading the marvelous narrative one may feel like they are physically in the story watching all the action that Alice is doing or feel like they are passing Alice on the street as she goes along in her own quiet way.

The characters, that Golda creates from Allegra, Nellcott, and Alice etc. are well crafted and seem like real people that one would meet in real life. Golda has an astonishing imagination that she can formulate characters that people can relate to and create an emotional bond. When one character feels happy or sad so does the reader.

This novel is a very good representation of what a young person, who is leaving home for the first time, and going away to college has to face, with all the life experiences that they learn from. I highly recommend that people pick up this novel and read it.

I'm also intrigued about Nellcott Is My Darling that at this time is in the beginning stages of becoming a movie.

I hope one day +Golda Fried, writes another world-winning novel that her readers can be swept away into a world that is not so far from their dreams.