So the fact that they stuck with me the way they did says a lot, no? I have the functioning memory of a goldfish, and not in the Ted Lasso motivational speaking way. They don't exist, emma! To my eternal chagrin.)įirst - I didn't look any of those names up. So basically this will be my review of this group of people. There isn't much of a plot to speak of, beyond the shifting dynamics and relationships built between them, namely Cleo and Frank, a semi-green-card marriage built mostly on passion and age difference, and those around them: Frank's younger half-sister, Zoë Frank's friends, Anders, and another more boring and half-hearted inclusion whose name I don't remember Cleo's best friend Quentin Zoë's best friend Audrey and finally, ELEANOR.
The writing is lovely, but in relation to the people it creates and summons. I guess, considering that it's been a month since I read this and I haven't been able to stop reading or talking or thinking about it, five stars.įor me, this is a book of characters. There were very many characters in this book that I didn't like, but also I wasn't supposed to, but also even when I'm not supposed to I usually do anyway, often more than when I AM supposed to.Īnd also, in addition to this, there was a character I loved so much that I cried through her chapters (of which there are only two), an insanely earnest and vulnerable moment the likes of which has never occurred to me ever. #Bookstagram is known for its grids of aesthetic curation - merging a love of art, words and design.Update: dropping this to 4.5 because there is one thing that bugs me too much to leave this at a perfect 5.
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