As I began to read I was worried about the often clunky descriptions of banal details and action, but as the story developed these moments took on an authenticity within the experience of Elizabeth. She is a women in the midst of a 'mid-life' crisis trapped by petty bourgeoises respectability - the kind of respectability that pays undue attention to the banal details of life. Jo Verity has not produced a work of great 'literary' writing but that does not diminish the powerful storytelling, in the encounter between Elizabeth and Dafydd there is a breathless tension that is a rare quality. For once the cliche is applicable, this is a book I couldn't put down, one I would definitely recommend.
There was a small unexpected connection with The Last Hundred Days that I had just finished as one of the subplots involved an estranged Romanian Husband, like buses you wait 30 years and then 2 Romanian themed books turn up at once!
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