Clare Morgan

I loved this book - in fact I bought it twice! I was in the middle of reading it when I broke my wrist and launched forth into the uncertain world of kindle. I wouldn't have thought the change in edition would have made so much difference. So I waited until I could hold a book again to finish this book.

This isn't a book you can easily read while you commute, it is a book you steal away for a guilty read, enjoying the prose to the fullest.

The plot is straight forward, on the surface, lovers, the rise and wane of relationships but you gradually realise there is a gossamer web that sits over the whole book, subtly, and yet drawing the whole together in psychological intrigue.

On the face of it the modern characters are entrenched in their research into Woolf and Nietzsche, but this research in having a deep affect on each of them, it is shaping and forming their reactions to the present. It is almost obsessional as the research draws parallels to the present.

A wonderful read, but take your time with this book, it isn't a rom/com it is a wonderful read and as you re-read you realise the layers you missed the first time round. It is a classic and brilliant novel. Morgan's Welsh roots show in brilliant lyrical and rhythmic prose.… (mais)