Ladder of Years vs The Ivy Tree: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Personnes disparues, Missing persons, Romance, Fiction
Ladder of Years
“This all started on a Saturday morning in May, one of those warm spring days that smell like clean linen.”
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKBALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing…
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The Ivy Tree
A TRICK OF COLORING... HER WALK... THE WAY SHE SMILED... An English June in the Roman Wall countryside; the ruin of a beautiful old house standing cheek-by-jowl with the solid, sunlit prosperity of the manor farm - a…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Ivy Tree highest: The Ivy Tree 4.0 · Ladder of Years 3.7.
- Ladder of Years has the widest readership — 20246 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Ladder of Years | The Ivy Tree | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (20246) | 4.0 (7634) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (16) | 3.7 (10) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (129) | 4.0 (102) |
Reception
| Ladder of Years | The Ivy Tree | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 20246 | 7634 |
| Editions | 36 | 33 |
| Citations | 7 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 14946 | — |
| Reading it now | 1253 | — |
| Written reviews | 1789 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 308 | 282 |
| Pages | 326 | 272 |