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emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.75
Bumped it up to 4 stars (on Goodreads!) in the last 20 pages. Having come to the recent realisation that my close girlfriends are my main love story, I enjoyed the latter half far more than the first. This probably says more about my feelings towards my twenties (which I largely consider as treacherous), but that’s the point - this is one of those books where you’ll like it if you get it, and it will feel utterly meaningless, self indulgent drivel if you don’t. I particularly resented the recipes that interrupt the narrative - they only serve to draw further comparisons with Heartburn and in my opinion, Alderton is no Norah Ephron. Despite all this, I found myself happily floating downstream of this book, and I would be happy to recommend it to others if I think they need a hug from someone who’s been where they are - in short, people who will ‘get’ it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Chronic illness and Death
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