Although I thoroughly enjoyed this book,there was something irritating about the tone,something vaguely do-gooderish about it.It ticked all the right boxes,the wife trying to "find herself",the well-meaning but misunderstood husband,the hard-working Al and Caroline and Caroline`s struggle to bring up Phoebe,the rebbellious son etc.
It seemed to me as if the author had done a lot of creative writing courses,learned what you need to include in a book,to make it appeal to women of a certain age and then went for it.Does anyone else feel that about it?
Having said that,it is very skilfully written but appears to lack passion.
Someone once said to me that when you say a book is not good...what you are really saying is "I could do better"
and I am certainly not saying that...it is just my observation,whatdyathink?